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Space
Mars Was Always Destined to Die
By Jeffrey Kluger
Inspiration4 Crew Safely Splashes Down Off Florida Coast
By Marcia Dunn / Associated Press
Liftoff! Inspiration4 Makes Space History
By Jeffrey Kluger
Inspiration4: The Quest to Push the Limits of Space Travel
By Jeffrey Kluger
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Meet the All-Civilian Crew of Inspiration4
From a childhood cancer survivor to an aerospace engineer
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 10, 2021
St. Jude's Fundraising Chief on Space and Pushing Boundaries
St. Jude has always been about pushing boundaries and taking what seems like impossible and making it possible.'
By Belinda Luscombe
August 10, 2021
Inspiration4 and the Long History of Civilian Space Flight
The Inspiration4 mission, while historic in its own right, is just the latest in a history of civilian space flights spanning four decades
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 9, 2021
Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon That Inspiration4 Will Fly to Space
The Dragon takes care of everything, so enjoy the ride—unless, something goes wrong. And something can always go wrong
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 6, 2021
How the Inspiration4 Crew Trained to Go to Space
"I wanted them to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because not everything about space will be comfortable."
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 5, 2021
Who Is an Astronaut in the Age of Private Space Flights?
With private space flight on the rise, paying customers can blast off for orbit. But does a spacecraft ticket make one an astronaut?
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 4, 2021
Everything You Need to Know About the Inspiration4 Mission
The Inspiration4 mission marks a turning point in which space is within the grasp of private corporations and citizens
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 4, 2021
Bezos Protests Elon Musk's Moon Contract
The protest opens a new front in a fight over government contracts as Blue Origin races to catch up to SpaceX
By Justin Bachman / Bloomberg
April 27, 2021
NASA Hid a Message on Perseverance's Parachute
Here's how a computer science student and his father cracked the secret code
By Megan McCluskey
February 24, 2021
Watch SpaceX and NASA's Crewed Launch
It'll be the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in nearly a decade
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 25, 2020
Is Coronavirus A Preview Of Alien Life Reaching Earth?
You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn't mean we could handle it—biologically,...
By Jeffrey Kluger
March 2, 2020
Hidden Figures
Hero Katherine Johnson Dies at 101
Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution
By Jeffrey Kluger
February 24, 2020
NASA Could Get a Raise Next Year
For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA's pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9...
By Jeffrey Kluger
February 18, 2020
The Irony of Finding So Many Exoplanets in a Time of Climate Change
There was nothing quite like the slang used in the early days of the space program. Saying something was "OK" would not do when you could say "A-OK" instead. Saying, "Let's get moving," when you've...
By Jeffrey Kluger
January 21, 2020
NASA May Have Found the Goldilocks Planet of Goldilocks Planets: TOI 700 d
If you ask astronomers how many planets in the universe harbor life, they will likely say there are only two possible answers: one or infinity. We can rule out zero, thanks to the decidedly alive...
By Jeffrey Kluger
January 13, 2020
Boeing Starliner's Troubled Flight May Mean More Delays in Commercial Crew Missions
America gets back in the astronaut-launching game—almost
By Jeffrey Kluger
December 20, 2019
How to See the Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend
The shower is expected to peak late tonight into the midnight hours. During peak hours, 120 meteors per can possibly be seen.
By Josiah Bates
December 13, 2019
SpaceX Just Put 60 More Broadband Internet Satellites Into Space
(Bloomberg) — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched its second batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Monday, taking another step toward Elon Musk’s vision to create a network for space-based broadband internet service around the world....
By Dana Hull / Bloomberg
November 11, 2019
Watch Live: The First All-Women Spacewalk
The first ever spacewalk by an all-women crew is happening today. Coverage began at 6:30 a.m. ET, and the astronauts are scheduled to enter the vacuum of space at 7:50 a.m. Astronaut Christina Koch, who...
By Billy Perrigo
October 18, 2019
TIME's Award-Winning
Year in Space
Documentary Is Now Available On Netflix
We followed astronaut Scott Kelly as he spent nearly a year aboard the ISS
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 17, 2019
There's a Full Moon Due on Friday the 13th for Most of the U.S. The Next One Isn't for Another 30 Years
September's Harvest Moon is also nicknamed the Micro Moon
By Gina Martinez
September 12, 2019
Why This Earth-Like Planet is a Big Step Forward in the Search for Life
A watery world in a cozy spot
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 11, 2019
The Amazon Fires, From an Extraterrestrial Perspective
A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 30. Space is aspirational. Merely the act of looking through a telescope is an exercise in questing. It’s vast, exciting, and...
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 6, 2019
A European Satellite Had to Fire Thrusters to Avoid Colliding With a SpaceX Satellite
Such maneuvers are expected to become more common as more small satellites are launched
By Craig Trudell / Bloomberg
September 2, 2019
Northern Lights Could Be Visible in U.S. This Weekend
Dress warmly, get to a dark spot and look to the north
By Gina Martinez
August 30, 2019
Newt Gingrich's Moon Sweepstakes Are a Confounding Development in Today's Space Race
A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 24. Newt Gingrich is going to the moon. Again. You might argue that Gingrich, the one-time Speaker of the House of...
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 29, 2019
SpaceX's Starhopper Flight Test Is a Big Step Forward for Elon Musk's Moon Dreams
A little flight with big implications
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 28, 2019
See What the Burning Man Festival Looks Like From Space
Black Rock City appears and disappears in a matter of days
By Alex Fitzpatrick
August 28, 2019
I'm a Retired Female Astronaut and I Can't Understand the Obsession With 'Gender Diverse' Space Crews
A victory that's already been won
By Marsha Ivins
August 28, 2019
Bears on the Moon, Musk Vs. Bezos, and How Venus Became Hell in Space
A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 10. There are now bears on the moon. No, really. They’re tiny bears—barely half a millimeter in length—but they’re there. And...
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 12, 2019
The Risk in NASA Using Private Companies for Moon Return
The "NASA Inc" strategy could reap rewards — but expect turbulence along the way
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 31, 2019
Three 'Missing-Link' Planets Discovered Circling Nearby Star
A satellite has triplets
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 31, 2019
Here's Why Area 51 Conspiracy Theories Are So Popular
'There's a thin crust of rationality over a molten core of crazy'
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 29, 2019
How to Watch the Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower
You won't want to miss out on a final grand showing in July from the sky
By Currie Engel
July 26, 2019
Lightsail 2's Successful Deployment Makes it the First Steerable Spacecraft Powered by the Sun
This is a version of the TIME Space newsletter that went out July 26, 2019. Dear readers, Jeff Kluger is out this week. I’m Alejandro de la Garza, a researcher and reporter at TIME,...
By Alejandro de la Garza
July 26, 2019
How NASA's Chris Kraft Helped Put Men on the Moon
The legendary NASA leader died at age 95 on June 22
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 23, 2019
Google Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing With a Doodle
Collins did not leave any boot prints on the moon, but he was "the ticket home" the the men who did
By Julia Webster
July 19, 2019
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were Supposed to Nap After Landing on the Moon, But They Couldn't Wait to Walk
And other highlights from TIME's original 1969 coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing
By Sanya Mansoor
July 18, 2019
'We Need That Boot Print.' Inside the Fight to Save the Moon's Historic Sites Before It's Too Late
Half a century after humankind first walked on the moon, our sole natural satellite is becoming a much busier place. NASA wants to make a return trip, as do private American space companies like Elon...
By Currie Engel
July 18, 2019
How Historians Are Reckoning With the Former Nazi Who Launched America's Space Program
In Operation Paperclip, German scientists were taken to the U.S. to develop military technology. That work later fed into the space program
By Alejandro de la Garza
July 18, 2019
Here's Every Single Mission to the Moon in One Chart
Humans started to work in earnest to get to the moon in the 1950s, when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. initiated a bracing Cold War space race. The Soviets drew first blood in 1959: in that...
By TIME Staff
July 18, 2019
The Science Behind TIME's New Apollo 11 Moon Landing Augmented Reality Experience
It's now live in the TIME Immersive app for iPhone and Android
By TIME Staff
July 18, 2019
Musk Says We Can Land on the Moon in Less Than 2 Years
On July 12, TIME editor-at-large and space reporter Jeffrey Kluger had a far-ranging conversation with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the company’s headquarters in California. They discussed Musk’s reasons for starting SpaceX, his thoughts on...
By Jeffrey Kluger
July 18, 2019
Welcome to TIME Immersive's Apollo 11 'Landing on the Moon' Experience
Download the TIME Immersive App On July 20, 1969, Earth was missing three of its humans. They had left for the moon four days earlier, and now, two of them were preparing to descend from...
July 18, 2019
Introducing TIME Immersive, a New Way to Experience TIME's Journalism
Download the TIME Immersive App The TIME Immersive app brings TIME stories to life before your eyes using the power of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). From exploring the surface of the moon...
July 18, 2019
The Story Behind TIME's 1969 Apollo Launch-Party Photos
To photograph a moon mission, the obvious direction to point your camera would be up. But David Burnett, a 22-year-old photographer who was based out of TIME's Miami bureau, instead zoomed in on the ordinary...
July 18, 2019
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