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A NASA space telescope is falling out of the sky, and to save it the agency skipped its own contractors and handed the job to a four-year-old startup that had never flow…

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...
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Startup Aims To Catch A Falling Space Telescope

Four years ago, entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman proposed a mission to NASA: Reboost the Hubble Space ...
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Space shuttle photobombs Earth for the final time, 15 years ago — Earth from space

This 2011 astronaut photo captured one of NASA's iconic space shuttles passing between Earth and the International Space ...
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Keep the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes alive — the science is worth the price tag

From black holes in the early Universe 1 to atmospheres cloaking distant planets 2, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) studies cosmic phenomena that no other observatory has been able to probe. The ...