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NASA funds experimental radiation shield and Mars climbing robot

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NASA funds experimental radiation shield and Mars climbing robot

Several futuristic projects have just been awarded money through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts programme – here are 91av's top five choices

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Perseverance Mars rover

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Perseverance Mars rover uncovers the watery history of Jezero crater

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Parker Solar Probe near the sun

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun

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Illustration of NASA?s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency?s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

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NASA’s DART mission will try to deflect an asteroid by flying into it

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Anti-satellite weapons: Will further tests make space more dangerous?

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Anti-satellite weapons: Will further tests make space more dangerous?

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Earth-like exoplanet

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US astronomers plan $11 billion telescope to picture another Earth

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Tardigrade

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Tardigrades could survive interstellar travel in extreme hibernation

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Lucy spacecraft

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NASA’s Lucy mission is launching to study asteroids near Jupiter

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A cliff face on Mars

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Ancient Mars lake had fast-moving floods that carried huge boulders

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A selfie taken in space by the crew of Inspiration4, including Christopher Sembroski, Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor and Hayley Arceneaux

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SpaceX’s Inspiration4 marks a shift towards privacy for space tourists

The Inspiration4 mission was the first orbital space flight to carry only private passengers and was mostly not broadcast publicly, a surprising change from the space agency transparency

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NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first Mars sample – but it’s empty

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Snake-like robot could explore Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

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People in Science

Mae Jemison

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NASA is trying a 'risky' fix for the ageing Hubble Space Telescope

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