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NASA is set to launch its first space mission from American soil in nearly a decade — with an astronaut from St. Louis County aboard.St. Ann native Bob…
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Dajae Williams boasts that she’s “the dopest person to ever work at NASA.” A quality engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Los Angeles, Williams is…
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A team of engineering students at St. Louis University this week will be listening for signals from a six-pound, tissue-box-size satellite in outer space.…
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The Earth’s moon contains ice, but scientists don’t know much about where the water came from. As the moon formed, water could have come from Earth’s…
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Space explorers could someday use the moon to mine for elements needed to make rocket fuel on the moon, making it a launchpad to other worlds. But first,…
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Of all imaginable things that could have happened during my time in space, I had no idea that a chess match would be the most historic.Officially, in the…
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Geologists at Washington University will be among the first researchers to study lunar samples from the final crewed mission to the moon. The Apollo 17…
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Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, when humanity took its first steps on another planetary body via astronauts Neil…
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Retired astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer Catherine “Cady” Coleman is among very few people who have lived in space. But during a visit to St. Louis…
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Engineer Brooke Harper has spent the last four and a half years making sure that the Mars lander InSight would make a graceful descent on the red planet.…