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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.

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NASA’s Apollo moon program wasn’t sustainable, but with commercial space, Artemis can be Intuitive Machines prepares to launch robotic moon mission from Florida in 2022 Tags:  Americans have not stepped foot on the moon in nearly 50 years, but that’s going to change very soon. This week on “Space Curious,” Astralytical space consulting firm founder Laura Forcyzk helped explain why the U.S. left the moon after the final Apollo mission and hasn’t been back. The U.S. space race with R...

NASA’s Apollo moon program wasn’t sustainable, but with commercial space, Artemis can be Intuitive Machines prepares to launch robotic moon mission from Florida in 2022 Tags:  Americans have not stepped foot on the moon in nearly 50 years, but that’s going to change very soon. This week on “Space Curious,” Astralytical space consulting firm founder Laura Forcyzk helped explain why the U.S. left the moon after the final Apollo mission and hasn’t been back. The U.S. space race with R...

Pittsburgh’s ambassadors to space are ready to return America to the moon Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander launches this year from Florida carrying NASA payloads Tags:  Astrobotics Peregrine moon lander. (Image: Astrobotic) (WKMG 2021) 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 Intu...

Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you’ve never heard of Cochran ‘was a huge force in aviation,’ space historian and author Amy Shira-Teitel says Updated:  Tags:  Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lyndon B. Johnson that he refused to let her call him Mr. President. Yet Cochran’s legacy as the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953 and her role in the Mercury 13 w...

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Who takes out the space trash? Space debris is growing, here’s what’s being done about it Episode 2 of ‘Space Curious’ dives into this very topic Updated:  Tags:  After a spacecraft is no longer serving a purpose, it becomes junk. On a recent episode of “Space Curious,” we talked to experts who know a lot about space junk, and what challenges humans face in cleaning up the messes we make. Daniel Batcheldor is the former head of aerospace physics and space sciences at Florida Insti...

Are you ‘Space Curious?’ This podcast, dedicated to all things outer space, is worth a listen Episodes available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Published:  Tags:  The Space Curious podcast is now available on all your favorite podcast platforms. (Graham Media Group 2021) How did the International Space Station get assembled in orbit? What happens to all the space junk? What Earth sounds do you miss while in space? Space Curious, a podcast by WKMG-TV and Graham Media Gro...