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Chef Duff Goldman spins up moon-shaped cake for NASA 'Taste of Space'

Duff Goldman, the host of the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes," has for a third year brought a space-themed cake to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

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Who's in your commercial? Capital One ad stars (unnamed) astronaut

A banker, an athlete and an astronaut walk onto a stage... No, that is not the setup for a joke, but rather the premise behind a new commercial starring a veteran NASA space traveler.

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Apollo 14 astronaut's personal moon-flown Rolex watch sells for record $2.2 million

A Rolex watch that was flown to the moon is now the most expensive astronaut timepiece to sell at auction. The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by Edgar Mitchell sold for $2.2 million.

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NASA's Robonaut-2 reunited with its ride into space at Smithsonian

NASA's space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space.

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Crew-8 astronauts splash down on SpaceX Dragon Endeavour after weather delays (video)

Crew-8 is back on Earth after an extended mission and a wait for the weather to clear. Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin splashed down on Dragon Endeavour.

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Mini '2001' monoliths fly into space on first flight of Blue Origin's 2nd crew ship

A number of black slabs modeled after the monoliths in "2001: A Space Odyssey" have made the trip into space and back on the first flight of Blue Origin's second human-rated launch vehicle.

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Exclusive: Doritos' 1st ad filmed in space features special 'zero-g' chips (video)

It is not a sound often heard in Earth orbit, but in the newly released footage of snack and space history being made, it is clearly there. *Crunch* Doritos is releasing its first ad filmed in space.

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Full-size mock space shuttle makes first move towards Downey display

The parts for a 1972 full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for display. The City of Downey, California began relocating "Inspiration."

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Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos once pledged that if his company's first rocket to reach space and land vertically back on Earth survived, he would put it in a museum. He has made good on his word.

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Artemis moon suit designed by Axiom Space and Prada revealed in Milan (photos)

The next U.S. astronauts to walk on the moon will do so in style. Axiom Space and Prada have revealed the outer cover layer for the AxEMU spacesuit.

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Signed steel beams 'top off' L.A. home for space shuttle Endeavour

The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, has reached new heights and the California Science Center is celebrating with a "topping off" ceremony.

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Gateway gift: Northrop Grumman delivers lunar-orbit hab for Space Center Houston display

A full-scale mockup of the astronaut accommodations for a small space station orbiting the moon has arrived at Space Center Houston. Northrop Grumman has donated its prototype for the Gateway HALO.

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First moonwalker Neil Armstrong's speech notes posted online by Purdue

Neil Armstrong is perhaps best known for saying 12 words on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But there's more to his record, as his alma mater can attest.

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Original full-size space shuttle mockup to be restored for Downey display

A full-size mockup of the space shuttle orbiter that was built as a contractor's showcase model before NASA decided on the spacecraft's final design is heading back on display in Downey, California.

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'Aurora' the baby falcon plush toy takes flight again as SpaceX Crew-9 zero-g indicator

A tradition borrowed from the Russian space program has physically crossed over to an U.S. spacecraft. The "zero-g indicator" that launched on SpaceX's Crew-9 previously flew on two Russian Soyuz.

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NASA restarts art program with New York murals aimed at Artemis Generation

As NASA works to return astronauts to the moon, the agency is resurrecting a program aimed at communicating the cultural significance of its missions. A new era for the NASA Arts Program has begun.

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Soyuz MS-25 lands from ISS with NASA astronaut and record-setting cosmonauts (video)

Three crewmates have landed Earth after a record-long stay on the International Space Station (ISS) for two of them. For one, the 374 days has amounted to only a third of his total time in space.

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NASA's 'Hidden Figures' women awarded Congressional Gold Medals

Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.

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9 firsts in 5 days: Polaris Dawn crew lands from history-making SpaceX mission

Four private astronauts are back on Earth after a five-day mission that set firsts and broke records in an effort to advance human spaceflight.

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Polaris Dawn: World's 1st commercial spacewalk was history's 20th stand-up EVA

Two private astronauts conducting the first commercial spacewalk did not so much float out of their spacecraft as they did "stand up."

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Polaris Dawn crew flies higher than 1966 Gemini 11 orbital record

The private SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew has now flown farther from Earth than any astronauts have traveled since the last Apollo mission left for the moon.

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Elon Musk's pet dog inspires young girl's design for Polaris Dawn zero-g indicator

A privately-funded space crew aiming to set several records in orbit may not include the first child in space, but they have her hopes, wishes and furry spacesuit-clad creation aboard.

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Statue of fallen 'Teacher-in-Space' Christa McAuliffe unveiled at NH state house

A statue of Christa McAuliffe, NASA's "Teacher-in-Space" who died on board the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, has been unveiled in New Hampshire, the state where she taught.

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Orion capsule used in abort test 'lands' at University of North Dakota

A space capsule that NASA used to learn more about safely launching astronauts to the moon has arrived at the University of North Dakota for a different type of education.

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Mock shuttle Pathfinder restored atop its stack at Alabama rocket center (photos)

An early mockup of NASA's winged orbiters, Pathfinder was returned to its position atop a space shuttle propulsion "stack" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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