# nasa - Thursday 13 February, 2020
As investment in spacetech increases, the Irish tech sector has something to phone home about.
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# nasa - Thursday 6 February, 2020
Christina Koch also made history as one half of the first-ever all-woman spacewalk.
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# nasa - Sunday 22 December, 2019
The two-day demo was originally due to last for over a week.
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# nasa - Friday 18 October, 2019
There have been 227 spacewalkers since the first spacewalk in 1965 and all of them have included a male.
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# nasa - Saturday 24 August, 2019
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
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# nasa - Friday 7 June, 2019
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
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# nasa - Wednesday 24 April, 2019
Nasa has said the new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior.
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# nasa - Wednesday 27 March, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence has said failure to return to the moon by 2024 is “not an option”.
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# nasa - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
Nasa said it does its best to anticipate the spacesuit sizes, but that a person’s body may change when they’re in orbit.
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# nasa - Sunday 3 March, 2019
The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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# nasa - Saturday 2 March, 2019
The launch is a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil.
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# nasa - Friday 15 February, 2019
The last person to walk on the moon was Eugene Cernan in December 1972, and Nasa wants to change that.
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# nasa - Thursday 14 February, 2019
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
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# nasa - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
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# nasa - Friday 28 December, 2018
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
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# nasa - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
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# nasa - Tuesday 11 December, 2018
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.
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# nasa - Saturday 1 December, 2018
We have the details on what its next few weeks will be like.
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# nasa - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
A lovely sight this grim morning.
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# nasa - Monday 26 November, 2018
More than half of 43 attempts to reach Mars with rovers, orbiters and probes have failed.
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# nasa - Sunday 21 October, 2018
This quiz is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind*.
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# nasa - Thursday 11 October, 2018
The rocket landed in Kazakhstan.
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# nasa - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
The American awards recognise excellence in the television industry.
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# nasa - Saturday 15 September, 2018
The $1 billion probe blasted off this morning.
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# nasa - Friday 24 August, 2018
The asteroid named Bennu is about the size of a mountain.
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# nasa - Sunday 12 August, 2018
After an aborted launch yesterday, the Parker space probe finally got its seven-year mission to the Sun under way this morning.
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# nasa - Saturday 11 August, 2018
The launch will be attempted again tomorrow.
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# nasa - Sunday 13 May, 2018
The helicopter is being sent as part of the Mars 2020 mission.
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# nasa - Thursday 19 April, 2018
The satellite is expected to catalogue thousands of planets.
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# nasa - Wednesday 4 April, 2018
The supply capsule launched on Monday from Florida.
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# nasa - Friday 22 December, 2017
He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker’s jetpack.
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# nasa - Wednesday 13 December, 2017
Nasa scientists say that examining the way the island sprung up could shed light on if there’s any life on Mars.
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# nasa - Monday 11 December, 2017
Budget issues have curtailed similar efforts by other Republican presidents.
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# nasa - Friday 13 October, 2017
Storm force winds and outbreaks of heavy rain could be on the way.
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# nasa - Wednesday 11 October, 2017
Asteroid TC4 will pass uncomfortably close to Earth just before 7am tomorrow morning according to Nasa.
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# nasa - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
A moon of a different kind.
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# nasa - Friday 15 September, 2017
More than 1,500 people jammed Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California to watch.
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# nasa - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
We talked to the film’s director, Emer Reynolds.
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# nasa - Friday 1 September, 2017
Scientists had planned to study the asteroid up close when it passes.
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# nasa - Monday 21 August, 2017
“We have to start eating salad and be healthy if we want to make it till the next eclipse,” one observer said.
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Clouds and sunshine
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Strong winds subsiding; a little rain
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