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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that he has received mixed results from tests meant to diagnose infections of the novel coronavirus.

Nickelodeon’s new family-friendly sci-fi series finds untrained kids aboard a spaceship that accidentally launches on a mission to investigate an asteroid passing Earth.

A relic of the early days of spaceflight has likely come back to pay a brief visit to its planet of origin, according to months of observations of a near-Earth object dubbed 2020 SO.

The cast of Nickelodeon’s “The Astronauts” needed to learn how to act while in space. Fortunately, unlike the characters they play, they had a real astronaut to help them get ready.

NASA and SpaceX will hold a press conference Friday (Nov. 13) to discuss the upcoming launch of SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronaut mission, which is slated to liftoff on Nov. 14.

On Nov. 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

The seventh episode of “The Right Stuff” borrows its title from a tower that journalist Tom Wolfe used to define who had “the right stuff.” In his book about the first astronauts, Wolfe wrote there was “a dizzy progression of steps and ledges, a ziggurat…”

SpaceX and NASA are gearing up for another historic astronaut launch from Florida this weekend, and officials are again asking spectators to take extra safety precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.