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• newFrom Jeff Bezos to today's NASA engineers, Apollo 11 inspired a generation to go to space - The Daily World
  From Jeff Bezos to today's NASA engineers, Apollo 11 inspired a generation to go to space  The Daily WorldDavid McFarland was just shy of his 14th birthday when on July 20, 1969, he sat in front of the family television and joined 650 million othe…
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• newFinal assembly and test milestones on tap for NASA's first Orion moon ship - Spaceflight Now
  Final assembly and test milestones on tap for NASA's first Orion moon ship  Spaceflight NowThe Orion crew module for the Artemis 1 mission, an unpiloted test flight to lunar orbit and back, completed a direct field acoustic test earlier this year…
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• newA PSU Professor, Then An Engineer With NASA, Recalls The Apollo 11 Launch - WPSU
  A PSU Professor, Then An Engineer With NASA, Recalls The Apollo 11 Launch  WPSUFifty years ago , on July 16, 1969, a Saturn V rocket was launched from Cape Kennedy Florida (now known Cape Canaveral), sending astronauts Neil ...
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• new7 billionaires' personal collections, from rockets to vintage photos - Business Insider
  7 billionaires' personal collections, from rockets to vintage photos  Business InsiderPhilanthropy is the most popular pastime among billionaires, Business Insider previously reported, but many of the world's wealthiest people also make time to ..…
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• newFrom Agriculture to Apollo 11: How a UGA Professor Helped Put a Man on the Moon - Georgia Public Broadcasting
  From Agriculture to Apollo 11: How a UGA Professor Helped Put a Man on the Moon  Georgia Public BroadcastingThe song " Daisy Bell " wasn't a hit in 1961, but it was a triumph. The singer? The IBM 7094, the largest, most expensive computer availabl…
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• newA Leaky Component Caused the SpaceX Crew Dragon Explosion - WIRED
  A Leaky Component Caused the SpaceX Crew Dragon Explosion  WIREDSpaceX: Explosion that destroyed Crew Dragon spacecraft in April was caused by leaking valve  CBS NewsSpaceX and NASA detail cause of Dragon test failure, crewed flight this ye…
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• newBryan Norcross remembers living in the shadow of the Apollo 11 'miracle' - WPLG Local 10
  Bryan Norcross remembers living in the shadow of the Apollo 11 'miracle'  WPLG Local 10Fifty years ago this morning, July 16, 1969, I walked two blocks to the beach, stood in the surf, and watched man go to the moon. The winds were light, the ocea…
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• newPolice: Boy, 3, dies after falling into grease trap at Tim Hortons shop - KBTV Fox 4 Beaumont
  Police: Boy, 3, dies after falling into grease trap at Tim Hortons shop  KBTV Fox 4 BeaumontRochester, N. Y. (WHAM) — A three-year-old child has died after falling in a grease trap at a University Avenue Tim Hortons Monday. A large-scale police…
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• newNew Space Abort Systems Go Back To The Future - Hackaday
  New Space Abort Systems Go Back To The Future  HackadayThroughout the history of America's human spaceflight program, there's been an alternating pattern in regards to abort systems. From Alan Shepard's first flight in ...
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• new50 years after the moon landing, the Saturn V rocket—now an Alabama landmark—is an astronomical site to be seen - Roadtrippers Magazine
  50 years after the moon landing, the Saturn V rocket—now an Alabama landmark—is an astronomical site to be seen  Roadtrippers MagazineThe Saturn V rocket is the epicenter for Huntsville festivities celebrating Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong's…
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• newMarionMade: Marion Power Shovel Company's role in the historic moon landing - Marion Star
  MarionMade: Marion Power Shovel Company's role in the historic moon landing  Marion StarBetween 1964-66, the former Marion Power Shovel Company designed and built two crawler-transporters for NASA.
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• newAfter Delay of Chandrayaan-2 Launch, Indians Are Disappointed but Confident - The New York Times
  After Delay of Chandrayaan-2 Launch, Indians Are Disappointed but Confident  The New York TimesThe country had been watching, eager for India to seize its place in space with a lunar landing. Scientists say the mission is still on — they just do…
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• newWhy space should be the first destination for investors – Spear’s essay - Spear's WMS
  Why space should be the first destination for investors – Spear’s essay  Spear's WMSFifty years ago, the US put a man on the moon. Now, finally, the UK is taking space seriously too, and there is an opportunity for investors.
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• newSpaceborne construction 3D printer to launch aboard 3D printed rocket - 3DPMN
  Spaceborne construction 3D printer to launch aboard 3D printed rocket  3DPMNMade in Space 's spaceborne construction 3D printer will launch aboard the Rocket Lab 3D rocket, powered by 3D printed engines, no earlier than 2022.
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• newBeing an intern in the Apollo program - Stanford University News
  Being an intern in the Apollo program  Stanford University NewsIn early summer 1968, Brian Cantwell was *fresh* out of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in engineering and driving down to Houston. He was on his ...
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• Trump tells liberal Dem women they should leave the US - KBTV Fox 4 Beaumont
  Trump tells liberal Dem women they should leave the US  KBTV Fox 4 BeaumontWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed a group of Democratic congresswomen of color as foreign-born troublemakers who should ...
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• Boeing’s role in moon missions helped launch Seattle as tech center - The Seattle Times
  Boeing’s role in moon missions helped launch Seattle as tech center  The Seattle TimesSeattle's fingerprints are all over the first moon landing. The reverse is also true. Fifty years after Apollo 11, this region's contribution to the mission an…
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• India’s start-ups find opening in space - BusinessLine
  India’s start-ups find opening in space  BusinessLineAll these start-ups have had a helping hand from ISRO, which sees these new companies as complementary to itself, a completion of the ecosystem.
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• Sharpsburg man reflects on NASA career - Newnan Times-Herald
  Sharpsburg man reflects on NASA career  Newnan Times-HeraldTony Bridges doesn't understand why anyone would believe the moon landings were faked. “I mean, you got to be dumb to believe it didn't happen,” he said.
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• Police: Man dies after attacking immigration prison - KBTV Fox 4 Beaumont
  Police: Man dies after attacking immigration prison  KBTV Fox 4 BeaumontTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found ...
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• Tiera Fletcher Plays 'Not My Job' On 'Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!' - NPR
  Tiera Fletcher Plays 'Not My Job' On 'Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!'  NPRGrowing up, Tiera Fletcher wanted to be a rocket scientist. And while most of us give up on that dream once we learn it involves math, Fletcher stuck with it, went ...
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• Russian Proton-M launches Spektr-RG observatory - NASASpaceflight.com
  Russian Proton-M launches Spektr-RG observatory  NASASpaceflight.comRussia's Proton-M rocket – after a lengthy standdown – finally launched the Spektr-RG observatory on Saturday at 12:30 UTC. Proton was expected to lift off ...
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• When will people go back to the Moon? - The Irish Times
  When will people go back to the Moon?  The Irish TimesNation states and the private sector want to land someone on the lunar surface soon.
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• NASA Moves Forward With Plans For Multi-Billion-Dollar Moon Rocket - NPR
  NASA Moves Forward With Plans For Multi-Billion-Dollar Moon Rocket  NPRNASA is building its most powerful rocket ever, a moon rocket, which will cost billions of dollars. But the effort has sparked debate about whether NASA should ...
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• NASA keeps Space Launch System test schedule amid shakeup - AL.com
  NASA keeps Space Launch System test schedule amid shakeup  AL.comNASA engineers moved a Space Launch System liquid oxygen fuel tank toward a stress test stand in Alabama this week, keeping to their schedule despite ...
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• What Makes a Modern 'Moonshot' Successful? - Inside Science News Service
  What Makes a Modern 'Moonshot' Successful?  Inside Science News Service(Inside Science) -- A half century ago this July, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped outside the Eagle lander and set foot on the moon, the first time humans ...
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• What does it feel like to be the world’s youngest astronaut? - Irish Examiner
  What does it feel like to be the world’s youngest astronaut?  Irish ExaminerMost teenagers have ambitions to travel the world, but few can realistically hope to travel the stars. At just 18 years-old, astronaut-in-training Alyssa Carson ...
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• NASA SLS rocket testing ensures astronaut safety, mission success - Space Daily
  NASA SLS rocket testing ensures astronaut safety, mission success  Space DailyAs the world reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions, NASA is looking forward to its next giant leaps. One way NASA ensures the safety of ...
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• Virgin Galactic drops a space rocket from custom Boeing 747 over California in first successful ‘launch’ tes - The Sun
  Virgin Galactic drops a space rocket from custom Boeing 747 over California in first successful ‘launch’ tes  The SunVIRGIN Galactic has successfully "launched" a rocket from a modified Boeing 747 airplane mid-flight. For this trial run, the r…
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• Future of space: Big ideas need big money to get NASA off the ground - Houston Chronicle
  Future of space: Big ideas need big money to get NASA off the ground  Houston Chronicle Published July 11, 2019. One in an occasional series. About the series. Nearly 50 years have passed since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first ...
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• Vega suffers her first failure during Falcon Eye-1 launch - NASASpaceflight.com
  Vega suffers her first failure during Falcon Eye-1 launch  NASASpaceflight.comArianespace's Vega rocket failed during the launch of the Falcon Eye-1 spacecraft for the United Arab Emirates. The launch has been delayed by several days ...
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• Soyuz 2-1v conducts surprise military launch - NASASpaceflight.com
  Soyuz 2-1v conducts surprise military launch  NASASpaceflight.comRussia's Soyuz-2.1v rocket has made a surprise launch Wednesday evening, lifting off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the north of the country to deliver four ...
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• Supply chain expands to meet demand for 3D-printed space parts - SpaceNews
  Supply chain expands to meet demand for 3D-printed space parts  SpaceNewsThis article originally appeared in the June 10, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine. It's not clear whether the additive manufacturing supply chain will expand ...
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• Could NASA build the Saturn V today? It's working on it. With a twist. - Fox News
  Could NASA build the Saturn V today? It's working on it. With a twist.  Fox NewsFor a few magic years in the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful rocket hefted humans towards the moon. The Saturn V is probably NASA's most famous rocket, with its ...
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• US Rocket With Russian Engine to Launch 1st Dream Chaser Spaceship to ISS in 2021 - Source - Sputnik International
  US Rocket With Russian Engine to Launch 1st Dream Chaser Spaceship to ISS in 2021 - Source  Sputnik InternationalMOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US Atlas V launch vehicle, the first stage of which is powered by the Russian-made RD-180 engine, is expected t…
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• Could NASA Build the Famous Saturn V Today? It's Working on It, with a Twist - Space.com
  Could NASA Build the Famous Saturn V Today? It's Working on It, with a Twist  Space.comFor a few magic years in the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful rocket hefted humans towards the moon. The Saturn V is probably NASA's most famous rocket, with its ...…
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• Why the Lunar Module Looked So Much Like a Moon Bug - Space.com
  Why the Lunar Module Looked So Much Like a Moon Bug  Space.comThe Apollo lunar module made history carrying astronauts to the surface of the moon. Here's how it came to be.
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• One small leap for Orion - The Space Review
  One small leap for Orion  The Space ReviewIf, five years ago, you were told Orion would fly in 2019, you might imagine the long-awaited (and delayed) first flight of the Space Launch System, sending an ...
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• NASA engineer Lee Solid worked on every rocket before Apollo missions - Florida Today
  NASA engineer Lee Solid worked on every rocket before Apollo missions  Florida TodayMark on NASA history: Lee Solid put his thumbprint on the Saturn V rocket engines that launched men to the moon, including Apollo 11.
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• Successful Orion Test Brings NASA Closer to Mars Mission - SciTechDaily
  Successful Orion Test Brings NASA Closer to Mars Mission  SciTechDailyNASA successfully demonstrated the Orion spacecraft's launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket and pull astronauts to safety during an emergency ...
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• Tennessee's rocket man: Meet the 103-year-old scientist who helped put man on the moon - The Tennessean
  Tennessee's rocket man: Meet the 103-year-old scientist who helped put man on the moon  The TennesseanHe putters around Columbia, Tennessee, working on steamer trains, but few neighbors know that centenarian J. Cary Nettles helped save the U.S. sp…
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• How to deliver a newspaper to the International Space Station - The Spokesman-Review
  How to deliver a newspaper to the International Space Station  The Spokesman-ReviewAstronaut Anne McClain, who recently returned from six months on the International Space Station, subscribed to The Spokesman-Review's daily e-edition ...
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• Houston’s ‘garbage collection’ space technology could help astronauts get to Mars - Houston Chronicle
  Houston’s ‘garbage collection’ space technology could help astronauts get to Mars  Houston Chronicle The goal is to clean up the roadways of space travel. But if the technology works, a Houston company's invention would do much more, propell…
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• ULA says malfunction of Russian RD-180 rocket engine occurred in 2018 during Atlas V launch - Space Daily
  ULA says malfunction of Russian RD-180 rocket engine occurred in 2018 during Atlas V launch  Space DailyThe US United Launch Alliance (ULA) spokeswoman Julie Arnold said that there was an emergency situation with Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine…
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• Orion Capsule's Launch-Abort System: How It Works - Space.com
  Orion Capsule's Launch-Abort System: How It Works  Space.comCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Orion crew capsule, designed to return astronauts to the moon, faces a critical 6-mile-high (10 kilometers) launch-abort test ...
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• Mississippi National Guard will have its own Space Force, governor announces at Infinity - Biloxi Sun Herald
  Mississippi National Guard will have its own Space Force, governor announces at Infinity  Biloxi Sun HeraldThe MS Army National Guard will soon have its own Space Force, Governor Phil Bryant announced at Infinity Science Center. There's also a new…
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• Look inside New Orleans' role in NASA 'torch bringer' mission to moon: Key piece near completion - NOLA.com
  Look inside New Orleans' role in NASA 'torch bringer' mission to moon: Key piece near completion  NOLA.comLying on its side, the 537000-gallon liquid hydrogen tank at the heart of America's upcoming space missions looks like a giant pill.
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• SLS Core Stage Receives Four RS-25 Engines for First Flight - GlobeNewswire
  SLS Core Stage Receives Four RS-25 Engines for First Flight  GlobeNewswireAerojet Rocketdyne delivered four RS-25 engines for integration with NASA's first SLS rocket core stage; The four RS-25 engines that will fly on the first flight of ...
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• Earth To Mars In 100 Days? The Power Of Nuclear Rockets - Universe Today
  Earth To Mars In 100 Days? The Power Of Nuclear Rockets  Universe TodayThe Solar System is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world to world with traditional chemical rockets. But one technique, developed back in ...
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• Richard Branson Ready to Risk Life to Make Space Dreams Real - The Daily Beast
  Richard Branson Ready to Risk Life to Make Space Dreams Real  The Daily BeastAfter years of hype, Virgin Galactic seems to have its act together. Just in time for the boss to join the celebration of the first moon landing by getting his astronaut…
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• Fact Check: Sorry Mr Amitabh Bachchan, Nasa doesn't have a rain cloud generator - India Today
  Fact Check: Sorry Mr Amitabh Bachchan, Nasa doesn't have a rain cloud generator  India TodayAmitabh Bachchan fell for a video which claims that Nasa has developed a rain cloud generator for instant shower.
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• Can SpaceX and Blue Origin best a decades-old Russian rocket engine design? - MIT Technology Review
  Can SpaceX and Blue Origin best a decades-old Russian rocket engine design?  MIT Technology ReviewSpaceX and Blue Origin try to design a better engine than Russia's RD-180.
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• Does the world need a 3D-printed rocket? - MIT Technology Review
  Does the world need a 3D-printed rocket?  MIT Technology ReviewRelativity Space, a well-funded startup, is going all-in on additive manufacturing and 3D printing. It's not clear whether that it's necessary.
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• The world’s smallest big rocket company - MIT Technology Review
  The world’s smallest big rocket company  MIT Technology ReviewDave Masten builds rockets on a shoestring in the desert—can he help NASA reinvent itself as a lean, agile enterprise?
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• LightSail 2 Launches to Space to Soar on the Power of Sunshine - Smithsonian.com
  LightSail 2 Launches to Space to Soar on the Power of Sunshine  Smithsonian.comThe Planetary Society's second solar sail will attempt to use sunlight to fly through space.
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