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Original Apollo 11 landing videotapes sell for $1.8M
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NASA’s Dragonfly will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s ocean moon
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NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window
NASA’s X-59 QueSST experimental quiet supersonic aircraft will have a cockpit like no other — featuring a big 4K screen where you’d normally have a front window. Why? Because this
Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding
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