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Landing a rocket is great, but will it save money?

by Kimberly Adams
Dec 22, 2015
SpaceX joins competitor Blue Origin in successfully reclaiming a used rocket.
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New law updates guidelines for space industry

by Molly Wood and Kimberly Adams
Nov 27, 2015
New law permits American companies to keep materials they mine in space.
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Asteroid mining not so far in the future

by Kimberly Adams
Nov 19, 2015
Congress recently passed a bill setting out guidelines for mining in space.
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2015: A Trash Odyssey

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 30, 2015
Quartz and Marketplace find out littering exists in space, too.
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One man's space trash ...

by Kimberly Adams
Oct 15, 2015
The cloud of debris orbiting the Earth looks to some like a business opportunity.
Space is swirling with thousands of pieces of debris.
Courtesy Lockheed Martin
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What to do about all that space junk? Cue the lasers

by Kimberly Adams
Oct 5, 2015
For now, we 'watch and hope' that debris in the orbital fast lane won't hit ISS.
GRAPHIC - (CIRCA 1989): This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) handout image shows a graphical representation of space debris in low Earth orbit. According to the European Space Agency there are 8,500 objects larger than 10 cm (approximately 3.9 inches) orbiting the earth and 150,000 larger than 1 cm (approximately 0.39 inches).
Photo by NASA/Getty Images
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Junk in space could have impact on earth

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 22, 2015
The government tracks debris zooming around the earth at upwards of 17,000 mph.
The Lunar Module 'Challenger' as seen from the Apollo 17 spacecraft after Transposition and Docking manoeuvres during NASA's Apollo 17 lunar landing mission, December 1972. The white dots surrounding it are debris shed by the Saturn S-IVB stage separation.
Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images
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NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto

by Adriene Hill and James Perla
Jul 13, 2015
Spacecraft probes the farthest reaches of the solar system.
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On Hawaii, a big telescope stirs conflict

by Jeff Tyler
Jun 18, 2015
Native Hawaiians say mountaintop site for new observatory is sacred ground.
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield on living above the sky

by Eliza Mills
Apr 30, 2015
A Canadian astronaut talks about singing in space and the future of living away from Earth.
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