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Uploading the Dragon capsule to the rescue ship. October 2, 2020, time 22:16 p.m. Screenshot from NASA TV

The year America returned to space

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Photo: The test site for the exposure of bacteria to space on the outside of the Japanese Kibo module on the International Space Station. The experiment tested between 2015 and 2018 how many years bacteria can survive in space. Photo: JAXA / NASA

Bacteria can survive a journey from Earth to Mars

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A Japanese experiment on the space station looked at how bacteria can survive in space conditions and transfer life from one planet to another.
Uploading the Dragon capsule to the rescue ship. October 2, 2020, time 22:16 p.m. Screenshot from NASA TV

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has landed safely in the Gulf of Mexico and the two astronauts on the test mission have been rescued

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The Amadimai Preservation vehicle, under construction for its launch in the summer of 2020. Photo by the European Space Agency

NASA sent a sophisticated vehicle to Mars and the first autonomous helicopter to fly in another world's atmosphere (live broadcast)

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Artist's rendering shows the Mars Helicopter, a small autonomous rotorcraft that will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 vehicle mission to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's Mars lander will be the first spacecraft on another planet. This is how he will reach the land of the red planet

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The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), which will be built by Astrobotics. illustration:

NASA has chosen Astrobotics to manufacture a robotic vehicle that will search for water on the moon

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Comet Atlas passes near the Sun. Credit: NASA/NRL/STEREO/Karl Battams

Comet Atlas was captured in a video crossing the field of view of one spacecraft and a second spacecraft crossed its tail

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Benken and Hurley, right, join the existing crew of the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

The astronauts on the joint mission to SpaceX and NASA have arrived at the space station

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Launch of the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft, Cape Canaveral, 30/5/20. Screenshot from NASA TV

Successful launch of the first American manned spacecraft in almost a decade (continuous live broadcast)

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Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken prepare to exit the CREW DRAGON spacecraft due to the cancellation of the launch on 27/5/2020. Screenshot from NASA TV

The first launch of astronauts since 2011 was delayed due to weather

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The astronauts are training for the launch of the first manned spacecraft in a decade, Crew Dragon. Photo: SpaceX

The history: the first private manned launch to the space station - on Wednesday 27/5/2020

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The astronauts are training for the launch of the first manned spacecraft in a decade, Crew Dragon. Photo: SpaceX

SpaceX and NASA announce: first manned launch in a decade from the USA - on May 27

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Close-up of Arrokoth by New Horizons. You can see that the "snowman" consists of two separate objects connected by a thin neck. An accidental collision of two such objects would shatter them rather than join them; The new study explains how the said connection was made. Photo courtesy of NASA

The birth of the "snowman" at the edge of the solar system

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Right to left: Chris Cassidy, Jessica Meir, Andrew Morgan. Photo: NASA

Watch: The 63rd crew took off to the space station * "The whole world joins the isolation on the station"

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Masten's XL-1 lunar lander will carry science and technology probes to the moon's south pole in 2022. Image: Masten Space Systems

NASA chose the Masten company to build and launch scientific instruments to the moon

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Katherine Johnson receives the Presidential Medal from the hands of Bill Clinton. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalis

Catherine Johnson, the mathematician who calculated the trajectory for Apollo 11, who died at the age of 101 - a much needed role model

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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Imaging - European Space Agency

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched to circle the Sun to observe the poles

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The Israeli Stemmed radiation protection suit is on display at the International Space Station. Photo: Astronaut Jessica Meyer, NASA

The Israeli Stemmed radiation suit was unveiled on the International Space Station

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The asteroid Beno, as photographed from the Osiris Rex spacecraft from an altitude of 24 km. Photo by NASA

Asteroid Bennu - interim summary before Osiris Rex collects a sample from it and returns it to DHA

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NASA head Jim Bridenstine with Avi Blasberger head of the Israel Space Agency and Dr. Oren Milstein CEO of Stamrad. Photographed by Moran Kogan

The Israeli radiation shield will be flown to the space station on Saturday, and will be tested by the two astronauts

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Wet Mars, billions of years ago, and Mars today. NASA figure, based on data transmitted by the MAVEN spacecraft

Mars: Interim Summary of MAVEN Spacecraft Findings  

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The last telemetry received from the Vikram spacecraft that apparently crashed on the moon, 6/9/19. Screenshot from the YouTube channel INDIA TODAY

The Indian lunar lander crashed just minutes before the planned landing

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The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft as photographed on August 24, 2019 during its docking attempt at the space station. Photo: NASA

An unmanned spacecraft failed to dock at the International Space Station. Another attempt - Tuesday morning

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Figure: The Artemis program's lunar lander from which the astronauts will take off. Image: NASA

The Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama will be responsible for the development of the Artemis lunar lander

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Infographic: The orbit of the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 to the moon. Image: ISRO

Chandrayaan 2 began orbiting the moon

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