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Astronaut medical records reveal the health toll of space travel

The largest collection yet of detailed medical data and tissue samples from astronauts should help researchers better understand the impacts of space flight on health

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Astronauts Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (left) and Christer Fuglesang on the International Space Station

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Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon

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Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon

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NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan on zero G dreams and fixing Hubble

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Astronaut working on the outsdie of the International Space Station

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Low gravity in space made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards

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A picture of the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the ISS

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Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of Soyuz 61 from the ISS

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After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

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Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

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Twins Scott and Mark Kelly

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What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?

Astronaut twin brothers Scott and Mark Kelly took part in a unique space travel experiment and it turns out that space changes your urine but not your faeces

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Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

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At last, US dream of resuming human space launches are within reach

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How the stunning Earthrise became the world’s most famous photograph

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Sean Penn and LisaGay Hamilton

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Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration

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