High schoolers control satellites aboard space station
Would you trust a 16-year-old in space? NASA evidently does. Just after the sun rose on the East Coast on Jan. 11, astronauts aboard the International Space Station…
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Sally Ride remembered: Tributes to 1st American woman in space
Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday (July 23) at the age of 61, Space.com reports.
Astronaut underwear wins students a cool $5,000
An old NASA idea for keeping astronauts cool could finally become reality. U.S. high school students recently won $5,000 to make spacesuit undergarments using materials that can absorb…
How students helped world see giant space rock 2005 YU55
The huge asteroid 2005 YU55 was small and dim in the sky during its close Earth approach yesterday (Nov. 8), but a handful of high-school students helped it…