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NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the sun

NASA’s pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat shield exposed to scorching temperatures topping 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (930 degrees Celsius).This post was originally […]

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Gateway: Wired for deep space

A maze of cables and sensors snakes through a major piece of Gateway, humanity’s first space station around the moon, during a key testing phase earlier this year to ensure the lunar-orbiting science lab can […]