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enough, things that used to be impossible can be possible," said Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space. Third-grade student Kaia Vanney may never forget the day she asked an astronaut what it feels like to be weightless in space. "It's fun to be

Looking out at the Earth’s surface from the International Space Station (ISS), astronauts frequently observe sunglint highlighting both ocean and inland water surfaces. CREDIT: NASA/JSC The coast of the northeast United States is silhouetted against the

An artist's impression of a black hole like the one weighed in this work, sitting in the core of a disk galaxy. The black-hole in NGC4526 weighs 450,000,000 times more than our own Sun. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will reveal new findings about black h

Pioneering space scientist David McKay died Feb. 20, 2013 at the age of 76. He trained the Apollo moonwalkers in geology and led a famous 1996 study that suggested the Mars meteorite ALH84001 may contain signs of past Red Planet life. CREDIT: NASA David

The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida before being taken to the launch pad for an attempted March 1 launch. Teams had just installed the spacecraf

'); Both SpaceX (left) and NASA have designed mission patches for the second Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) flight to the International Space Station. No comments yet for this story Former New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici has revealed that he fathere