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NASA's Artemis moon-bound rockets, spacecraft and suits are landing at a Michigan museum — piece by toy piece. The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn is opening "Artemis Adventure with LEGO Bricks" on Oct. 18.
A planetary exploration record places into perspective that not all distances logged off-Earth are astronomically large. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of another world — at 28.10 miles.
The United States Mint has begun selling sets of its 2026 coins, featuring designs celebrating the nation's semiquincentennial. The collection is special for another reason, though — it includes examples of the same coins that were launched into space.
Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 crew back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94. Windler died on Thursday, Oct. 1.
A two-piece flight suit made for the first astronaut to walk on the moon has surfaced at an auction benefiting a space history museum in Florida. The jacket and trousers were part of a training or spare inflight coverall garment sized for Neil Armstrong.
It survived the vibrations of a rocket launch, was exposed to cosmic radiation for more than three weeks, held up to the stress of four times the force of gravity and made it home after a record-setting journey. It was done in by something more terrestrial.
A company working to develop the world's first commercial space station sent a satellite into orbit to verify the technologies it needs to operate its inaugural module. Now, Vast is selling the metal segments left over from its Haven Demo mission.
Joshua Kutryk could not quite fathom he had left the planet. And yet all he needed to do to verify that he was in orbit for himself was to locate "Lucky," his and his Crew-13 crewmates' Apollo 13-inspired, crocheted golden dragon zero-g indicator.
Did you know that the first character that Walt Disney created to specifically appear on television was inspired, in part, by early Space Age rocket scientists? Sixty-five years ago, Disney introduced the world to the renowned scientist Ludwig von Drake.
About a month ago, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down debris over the American Midwest.
Ken Schreiber was 9 when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon in 1969 — a moment he would never forget. Like Armstrong, he too became a military fighter pilot.
For a limited time, visitors to the Grand Rapids Public Museum can see an official NASA uniform and several patches from Christina Koch, a Grand Rapids-born astronaut who served on the Artemis II mission orbiting around the moon in 2026.
Science communicator and citizen astronaut Emily Calandrelli, better known to millions of social media followers as "The Space Gal," is bringing her real-world spaceflight experience to the Marvel universe. Calandrelli is lending her voice to an upcoming episode of Disney Jr.'s animated series, "Marvel's Iron Man and his Awesome Friends."
Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT�s Instrumentation Lab during NASA�s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90.
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