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open US standards body proposes atomic clocks in lunar orbit to keep Moon time 17
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open Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk 25
open NASA's NEOWISE asteroid spotter turned off for the final time 14
open BOFH: The true gravity of the Boss and the 3-coffee problem 84
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open NASA mulls using SpaceX in 2025 to rescue Starliner pilots stuck on space station 90
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open NASA pushes back missions to the ISS to buy time for Starliner analysis 35
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open Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership 49
open Freighter bound for the ISS suffers engine abort 13
open The cybersecurity QA trifecta of fail that may burn down the world 32
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open Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon 17
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open Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit 53
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open Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project 196
open NASA pops repair kit in the mail so astronauts can fix leaky ISS telescope 23
open Beetle mania: How bugs are inspiring the next gen of robot aviators 8
open It is 60 years since a US spacecraft first took a close-up of the Moon 17
open Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers 95
open NASA gives Falcon 9 thumbs-up to launch Crew-9 29