Space
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Orion crew capsule not only survived launch and orbit, but temperatures of about 2,200C as it returned to Earth
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Across the universe Nasa's Orion spacecraft completes 'picture perfect' test flight – as it happened
Nasa has successfully launched its Orion crew vehicle and returned it to Earth. It’s hoped that the new craft will eventually take astronauts to Mars -
Unmanned capsule takes off on mission that space agency hopes foreshadows first human expedition to fourth planet
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Nasa successfully launches its new Orion spacecraft on Friday for an unmanned trial run around Earth
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If you thought you’d seen it all with the Rosetta mission, next year promises a Mars mission and an exploration of Pluto
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Engineers work on crew capsule for Friday takeoff after first test launch was postponed by technical and weather problems
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Orion was scheduled to lift off at Cape Canaveral early on Thursday, but a combination of problems prevented engineers from launching their newest ship
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Wind and misfiring valves scupper today’s first test flight for Nasa’s Orion spacecraft which the agency hopes will eventually take astronauts to Mars
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The US spacecraft Orion is launching today. It will be taking a short flight to test out technology that will hopefully be able to take humans to Mars. Would you like to visit the red planet?
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For more than a decade scientists have been at a loss to explain why there are fewer stars than they predicted
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Road to Mars begins with unmanned mission to altitude of 3,600 miles – about 15 times higher than international space station
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The Japanese Hayabusa 2 space probe launched on Wednesday, setting off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid
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Hayabusa 2 probe aims to touch down on rock called 1999 JU3, blast hole in it and analyse debris for clues to origins of life
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Scientists, astronauts and rock stars including Queen’s Brian May prepare awareness day and concert calling on governments to back early-warning technology
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Thursday’s test flight will be the furthest a built-for-humans capsule has flown since 1970s Apollo moon missions but astronauts must wait seven years at least
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Search for habitable worlds hots up with the detection of a ‘super-Earth’ planet, 55 Cancri e, using a ground-based telescope
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This month’s pick of the best space-related imagery has a theme: pareidolia, or the human tendency to see meaningful shapes and patterns where none exists
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Is our universe just one of an unimaginably large number of parallel universes?
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Alan Pickup on what to look out for during the coming month, including the year’s richest meteor display
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Alan Pickup charts the progress of the Rosetta mission following the eventful landing of Philae on the nucleus of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Researchers have created a mirror that not only reflects 97% of light but also radiates heat into the cold depths of the universe
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A group of friends send a lamb chop into space using a a GoPro camera and a weather balloon to capture its journey from east London into space
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Open thread: A coffee machine has just been delivered to the International Space Station. Tell us what you couldn’t do without
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Dean Burnett: Many people just refuse to accept the facts that surround them, even if we saw 100 more years of it plain and apparent
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Specially designed ‘ISSpresso’ machine overcomes absence of gravity by firing pressurised water through capsule of coffee
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A Russian Soyuz rocket has safely docked and delivered a crew to the International Space Station
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Russian spacecraft carrying Italy’s first female astronaut also delivers espresso machine, apples and tomatoes
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Tom Service: Listen to the strange music of the spheres with recordings gathered by spacecraft
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New zero-gravity coffee machine to be delivered to International Space Station
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Scientists from the European Space Agency say the lander Philae has discovered organic molecules containing carbon – the basis of life on Earth
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Geckos used to study reproduction in space die in orbit, but thermophilic microbes still able to multiply after landing
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Lunar Mission One launches a crowdfunding drive on Wednesday, which offers donors a chance to have a digital memory box buried on the moon
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Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts
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Spacecraft beams back evidence of carbon and hydrogen that could provide clues about origins of life on Earth
Orion: a last-ditch effort by a fading empire that will never strike back