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Inspiration4: Why the first all-civilian spaceflight is a very big deal

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With lessons learned from Apollo, NASA developing spacesuits for next moonwalkers

Our knowledge of the solar system is expanding. Here’s how scientists define interstellar space.

This week on Space Curious, a listener wanted to know, "How big is the solar system?"

Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflight

Animal spaceflights paved the way for the first human astronauts and today creatures big and small continue to space travel advancing our knowledge of how the zero-gravity environment impacts all beings and aiding research down on Earth.

Spidernauts and space dogs: What happens to the creatures of spaceflight

Animal spaceflights paved the way for the first human astronauts, and today, creatures big and small continue to space travel, advancing our knowledge of how the zero-gravity environment impacts all beings and aiding research down on Earth.

NASA’s Apollo moon program wasn’t sustainable, but with commercial space, Artemis can be

This time, the U.S. plans to stay on the moon with a sustainable presence with the help of international and commercial partners.

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Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moon

Several private companies launching moon landers later this year from Florida will kick off a grand campaign to better understand our nearest neighbor, with big implications for when NASA returns humans to the moon in a few short years.

Space Curious: Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moon

Several private companies launching moon landers later this year from Florida will kick off a grand campaign to better understand our nearest neighbor with big implications for when NASA returns humans to the moon in a few short years. Both Astrobotic and Intuitive Machine are months away from launching the first American missions to land on the moon since 1972. The companies were both selected under NASA’s commercial lunar payload services, or CLIPS, program.

Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you’ve never heard of

Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lindon B. Johnson he refused to let her call him Mr. President.

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SPACE NEWS

When is the next rocket launch from Florida?

A list of rocket launches to look out for in the coming weeks and months.

SpaceX delays Starlink launch as Elon Musk warns team of Raptor engine ‘crisis’

SpaceX teams at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station opted to delay the company's next launch by about a day, setting the stage for a Thursday evening liftoff with dozens of Starlink satellites

New ‘drag’ device promises to deorbit satellites before they become space junk

The device will launch to the ISS next year.

NASA report: Extending ISS to 2030 likely, but replacement needs to be planned

A new NASA report is taking a deeper look at not only what it will take to keep the International Space Station going until 2030, but what comes after it.

Report: Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees that company is at ‘risk of bankruptcy’

Could SpaceX be on the verge of bankruptcy?

NASA delays spacewalk over debris near space station

Concerns over space debris has delayed a planned spacewalk at the International Space Station.

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Introducing Space Curious, a new podcast by WKMG News 6

Hosted by WKMG space reporter Emilee Speck and edited by Graham Media Director of Podcasts, Zak Rosen, each episode will answer space-related questions submitted from our audience.

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There’s more than 1 way to send a spacecraft to Venus

Mars has been the bell of the planetary ball in the last few decades, but that’s not to say other planets in the solar system, like Venus, haven’t had a fair share of attention over the years.

The curious tale of searching for signs of life on Venus

How scientists know we’re not going to get squashed by an asteroid

This past year or so has been awful for a lot of reasons: a global pandemic, racial injustice, wildfires, a crazy active hurricane season and the list goes on -- but an asteroid crashing into Earth will not be the cherry on top of humanity’s punishment.

Space Curious: The questions we ask (and forget) to ask astronauts

Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts describes creating a rainstorm of sound in space and why kids ask the best questions.

Space Curious: The questions we ask (and forget to ask) astronauts

Creating a virtual rainstorm and giving your crewmate's pixie cut a trim are some things you might not expect an astronaut to do while in space.

All the best ways to watch a space launch

Have you ever watched a rocket launch? Some of us are in a position to do something like that fairly easily, based on where we live. For other people, it might be something we do on TV or online. Either way, it’s pretty incredible, space reporter Emilee Speck said.

Astronomers are working to make sure large satellite constellations don’t forever change the night sky

By the end of last summer, SpaceX had successfully launched nearly 700 satellites, known as the Starlink constellation, as part of CEO Elon Musk’s plan to create a space-based internet using a network of, eventually, up to 42,000 satellites.

Who takes out the space trash? Space debris is growing, here’s what’s being done about it

For more than six decades, humans have been launching spacecraft into low-Earth orbit and out into the universe, including satellites that provide GPS and weather forecasting down on Earth, but they have limited lifespans.

Introducing Space Curious, a new podcast by WKMG News 6