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Remembering Sally Ride's historic launch into space

Thirty years ago, Sally Ride shattered a glass ceiling high above the Earth as she became the first American woman to fly into space.

Tags: Sally Ride, NASA, space shuttle program, women in history, dick uliano, pancreatic cancer

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Virgin Galactic launches passenger trip into space

A new crop of astronauts are headed to space. And you could be one of them.

Tags: Randi Martin, Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, SpaceshipTwo

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'Stardust' animation shows moving, artistic space scenes

There is a captivating, powerful beauty in the intersection of science and art.

Tags: stardust, Heather Brady, Science

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Billions and billions of planets in the universe

A new study by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology has determined that our very own Milky Way Galaxy has at least 100 BILLION planets, or to put it another way, one planet per star. That is a lot of planets!

Tags: Milky Way Galaxy, Planets, space exploration

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Live stream: The Quadrantid meteor shower

The late evening hours and early morning hours of Jan. 2 and 3 are the best times to view the Quadrantid meteor shower in the northern hemisphere. A live stream of the meteor shower is available below.

Tags: Quadrantid meteor shower, meteor shower, NASA

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D.C.'s first 'spidernaut' dies unexpectedly Monday

The National Museum of Natural History announced that Nefertiti, the "spidernaut" died Monday before the museum opened to the public.

Tags: spider, international space station, science experiment, YouTube, Randi Martin

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Column: Armstrong belongs to the cosmos now

America, and in the broadest sense possible, all of humanity, has lost its first emissary to set foot on another world - Neil Alden Armstrong.

Tags: Neil Armstrong, NASA, The Moon

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