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First Irish astronaut in space reveals 'life-changing' moment that paved path to stars

Astronaut Norah Patten is set to become the first Irish person to go to space within the next 18 months, and said she will ...
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Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...

NASA is sending its first Black and first female astronauts to the moon

NASA is sending the first Black and first female astronauts to the moon in an upcoming launch, marking the first journey to ...

Brunswick kids talk to astronauts as they orbit Earth

When you ask a kid what they want to be when they grow up, “astronaut” is as classic an answer as “president” or ...