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A banner produced on the occasion of 20 consecutive years of manning the International Space Station in 2018. Photo: NASA

Power blocs in space: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth

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An expert in space law and international relations says that even the entry of commercial companies will not solve the problem because they are subject to the laws of the country in which they are registered
The heavy Falcon on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, November 28, 2017. The huge vehicle was briefly placed on the launch pad, as part of a test for the first static combustion test, only after which the company will give the green light for the maiden flight. Source: SpaceX.

The space missions of 2018: from the world's most powerful launcher to the successor to the Kepler space telescope

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Jim Bridenstine. Source: United States Congress.

Who is Jim Bridenstine, Trump's nominee for the next NASA administrator?

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Trump signs the presidential order last Friday. Photo: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani.

Trump signed an order resurrecting the National Space Council

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NASA's new team of astronauts. Left to right - Zeena Cardiman, Jasmin Hamadi, Johnny Kim, Frank Rubio, Matthew Dominick, Warren Hoburg, Rob Collin, Kayla Barron, Bob Haynes, Raja Chari , Laurel O'Hara and Jessica Watkins.Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz.

Martian generation? NASA unveils a group of 12 new astronauts

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Simulation of the space plane during the launch. You can see on top of it the upper rocket stage whose function is to bring the launched cargo to the final orbit around the earth, while the plane itself does not enter the orbit but returns to the ground and landed on a landing strip. Source: Boeing rendering.

Meet the "Phantom Express": a space plane that can take off again within 24 hours

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The X-37B space plane, yesterday at the Kennedy Space Center, after returning from a 718-day stay in space. Source: US Air Force courtesy photo.

The secret United States space plane has landed after 718 days in space

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Simulation of the X37B. It should be noted that the simulation was done by NASA in 2003, so it is possible that the current composition of the US Air Force is not the same as depicted in the simulation. Source: NASA.

The US Air Force's mysterious space plane has broken its previous record for staying in space

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Simulation of the SLS routine. Source: NASA.

NASA wants to launch astronauts already on the first flight of the SLS heavy launch vehicle

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US President Barack Obama speaks at the Kennedy Space Center on February 15, 2010, in a speech in which he presented his plan for the future of the American Space Launch Program. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Obama's space vision - a manned flight to Mars in the thirties

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The International Space Station, as photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis in 2010. Source: NASA.

NASA plans to stop supporting the International Space Station in about a decade - focus on Mars

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An astronaut stores a sample from the asteroid. Credit: NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology

Dancing with asteroids / Lee Billings

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Moon colony. Illustration: shutterstock

Russia wants to establish a manned colony on the moon in 2030, the US wants to establish greenhouses on Mars in 2021

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Apollo 15 mission symbol

Apollo 15 - erecting a monument in memory of the astronauts and cosmonauts who were killed in the line of duty, and illustrating Newton's laws

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Crew members of the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft enter the Tiangong-1 experimental space station on June 13, 2013

China's long march in space

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Apollo 14 crew members. Photo: NASA

Apollo 14 - shoot mortar shells at the moon

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Apollo 13 - a disaster almost certainly avoided

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Apollo 12 - Flight Log

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Dr. Sally Ride on her first space flight, 1983. Photo: NASA

Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, has died at the age of 61

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The space shuttle Discovery takes off in 2009 from California where it landed back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A similar flight will soon bring her to the Air and Space Museum in Washington

The end of the space shuttle program resulted in a high level of unemployment and disappointment

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Tal Inbar at the evening of the lectures "The Threats to Science and Reason" of the Hidan and Hamada site, 2/11/2011. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

US control of space - the end. Fourth and final article following the "Threats to Science and Reason" event

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The shuttle Endeavor after leaving the space station, May 30, 2011. Photo: NASA TV

The ferry project - thirty years in thirty minutes (video)

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The Space Shuttle Endeavor awaits launch on April 29, 2011 after Launch 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo: NASA

Obama will be present at the Endeavor launch this Friday

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Barack Obama at the Kennedy Space Center, April 15, 2010. Photo: NASA

Obama wants flights to asteroids around 2025 and Mars in the mid-thirties

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Next mission: STS-119: Discovery to the space station in February

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