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    The latest news from the spacecraft helping us explore the cosmos, and the historical missions that paved the way.

    The first sample tube deposited on Mars by Perseverance rover, 21 December 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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    How Perseverance rover’s Mars samples could discover life beyond Earth

    NASA Skylab space station. Credit: NASA
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    The story of the Skylab space station

    NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover image of a hill named 'Pinestand' showing tall sedimentary layers could have been formed by a deep, powerful river. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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    Artist's impression of NASA's Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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    Perseverance NASA's Perseverance rover lands safely on Mars

    The ‘last man on the Moon’ Eugene Cernan takes part in an extra vehicular activity during Apollo 17, December 1972.
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    How astronauts survive the extreme conditions in space

    SpaceX Starship on the launchpad ahead of the flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
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    Artist's impression of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube just before impact at the Didymos binary system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
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    The European Space Agency's JUICE mission
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    ESA’s JUICE mission successfully launches on its way to Jupiter

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    Artist's impression of the JUICE mission exploring Jupiter's moons. Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab, Getty Images
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    How the JUICE mission will explore Jupiter and its icy moons

    A James Webb Space Telescope image of Uranus, captured on 6 February 2023. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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    The ancient Greek space programme pioneered the use of steam pigeons. Credit: Kate Evans / Folio
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    Ancient astronauts and the very, very early Space Race

    Artemis II crew stand in Orion capsule mockup. Credit: NASA/James Blair
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    Astronomer Dr Savannah Jacklin. Backdrop: an artist's impression of the WFIRST telescope in operation. Credit: Savannah Jacklin / NASA
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    Interview How the WFIRST telescope will search for exoplanets

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