space stations
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Chinese Astronauts Performed Emergency Space Station Repairs Following Debris Impact
China’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris. The Tiangong space station’s core module, Tianhe, suffered a partial loss of power due to the impact, leading China to dispatch its astronauts on a pair of…
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16 Iconic NASA Photos That Changed Everything
NASA has produced thousands of images over its illustrious 65-year history, but some images have had a far greater impact than others. Among this vast portfolio, certain images stand out for having reshaped our understanding of space and our place within it, capturing moments that have both ignited the collective imagination and further driven our…
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China Launched A Second Space Station Into Orbit Today
China’s second prototype space station, Tiangong-2, successfully launched into orbit today. The launch comes five years after China sent up its first space lab, Tiangong-1, and serves as a reminder to the West that China’s space-based capabilities are growing fast.
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Monster Machines: The Last And Longest-Running Soviet Space Station (Until Mir)
By the latter half of the Space Race between the United States and the USSR, focus had shifted from simply putting people into orbit to seeing how long they could stay up there. And while the US won the sprint to the moon, it was actually the Russians who won the endurance test with the…