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This September, NASA is launching its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft on a return journey to the Bennu asteroid, and is inviting the public to send space-inspired art along for the galactic ride.
In Brief
Back in the 1930s and '40s, during the height of the Great Depression, artists designed posters for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) to encourage travel to national parks and other tourist sites in the United States.
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Launched in 1977 by NASA, the Golden Record, a copper phonograph LP, was intended to provide a picture of life on planet Earth to any aliens who might encounter the spacecraft
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On this week’s art crime blotter: teens take (and immediately return) a Mr. Brainwash sculpture, Kimye's pastor appropriates Wynwood street art murals, and a shark photographer goes after the new Steve Jobs biopic.
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The first human mission to Mars is, supposedly, closer than ever, with a one-way trip to the (watery!) Red Planet scheduled for 2024.
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When the Apollo astronauts traveled beyond the atmosphere and to the moon in the 1960s and '70s, they carried Hasselblad cameras to document the NASA missions.
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Early yesterday morning Pluto, three billion miles from Earth, appeared in our sharpest view yet.
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While humanity has only been launching huge payloads into outer space since the 1950s, with Sputnik breaking into orbit in 1957, a lot of human-made debris and technology now circle the planet.
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On July 20, 1969, the world watched, and was transfixed, as American astronaut Neil Armstrong — rendered on television as a ghostly black-and-white figure — descended from the Lunar Module onto the surface of the moon.
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The hope is that 3D printing and the incorporation of spacecraft waste and materials from the alien world can in turn help address affordable housing on Earth.
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In the early 20th century, the world watched in anticipation as Stetson-capped explorers disappeared into the Amazon jungle.
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Over 600 vintage space photographs from NASA missions, many not seen by the public before, are on view in London until their auction at the end of the month.