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In this 1973 photo made available by NASA, astronaut Owen K. Garriott floats in front of the Apollo Telescope Mount console in the Multiple Docking Adapter of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. The space agency said Garriott died at his home in Huntsville, Ala., on Monday, April 15. 2019. He was 88. (NASA via AP)

Former astronaut Owen Garriott dies, flew on Skylab station

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 4, 2016 file photo, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and his identical twin, Mark, stand together before a news conference in Houston. From his eyes to his immune system, Scott's body sometimes reacted strangely to nearly a year in orbit, at least compared to his Earth-bound brother _ but research published on Thursday, April 11, 2019 shows nothing that would cancel even longer space treks, like to Mars. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

NASA twins study explores space, the final genetic frontier

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press

NASA launch to help study health, carry students’ satellites

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This photo provided by NASA, astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch float outside the International Space Station, Friday, March 29, 2019, a week after the first spacewalk to install new and stronger batteries for the station’s solar power grid. Koch was supposed to go out with Anne McClain, but there weren’t enough medium suits readily available. So the first all-female spacewalk had to be scrapped. (NASA via AP)

Spacewalking astronauts install better station batteries

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 18, 2019, file photo made available by NASA, Flight Engineer Anne McClain looks at a laptop computer screen inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. McClain was supposed to participate in a spacewalk Friday, March 29, 2019, with newly arrived Christina Koch. But McClain pulled herself from the lineup because there’s not enough time to get two mediums suits ready. Koch will go out with a male crewmate. (NASA via AP)

NASA nixes 1st all-female spacewalk due to suit-sizing issue

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 1971 photo made available by NASA, Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin salutes while standing beside the fourth American flag planted on the surface of the moon. On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, Vice President Mike Pence called for landing astronauts on the moon within five years. (NASA via AP)

Pence calls for landing US astronauts on moon in 5 years

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

U.S. astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, left, Nick Hague, right, and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, members of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), pose near a bus prior to the launch of the Soyuz FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The new Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled on Thursday, March. 14. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russian-US crew arrives at International Space Station

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DMITRY LOVETSKY - Associated Press

This illustration made available by NASA shows the Space Launch System during liftoff. On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, NASA's top official said the space agency's new rocket won't be ready for a moon shot next year. (Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA via AP)

NASA’s new rocket won’t be ready for moon shot next year

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image released by NASA, a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, ready for launch, sits on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, March 1, 2019. The spacecraft's unmanned test flight with the Dragon capsule is scheduled for launch early Saturday morning. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

Crew capsule rockets toward space station with test dummy

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this Dec. 18, 2018 photo provided by SpaceX, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket are positioned inside the company's hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the Demo-1 unmanned flight test. SpaceX rockets closer to human spaceflight with this weekend’s debut of a new capsule designed for astronauts. The six-day test flight will be real in every regard, beginning with a Florida liftoff Saturday, March 2, 2019, and a docking the next day with the International Space Station. But the Dragon capsule won’t carry humans, rather a test dummy in the same white SpaceX spacesuit that astronauts will wear. (Space X via AP)

SpaceX debuts new crew capsule in crucial test flight

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This image released by Neon/CNN Films shows Buzz Aldrin in a scene from the film &quot;Apollo 11.&quot; (Neon/CNN Films via AP)

Review: In ‘Apollo 11,’ the thrill of landing on the moon

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

Woman recalls NASA job lifelong friendship with astronaut

By AMBER SOUTH and (Chambersburg) Public Opinion - Associated Press

This undated photo made available by SpaceX on Feb 6, 2019 shows the Dragon crew capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida where the Saturn Vs and space shuttles were launched. On Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, NASA and SpaceX announced the approval of an unmanned test flight for the new commercial capsule. (SpaceX via AP)

NASA, SpaceX OK 1st test flight of crew capsule next week

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. The scene was assembled from 11 photos taken using its robotic arm. The two white stalks between the center and the solar panels are weather sensors. Starting Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the high and low temperatures online, along with wind speed and atmospheric pressure from the InSight lander. (NASA via AP)

And now for the weather on Mars, courtesy of new NASA lander

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 26, 2015 file photo, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, right, crew member of the mission to the International Space Station, stands behind glass in a quarantine room, behind his brother, Mark Kelly, also an astronaut, after a news conference in the Russian-leased Baikonur, Kazakhstan cosmodrome. Nearly a year in space put Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, according to a report released on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Year in space put US astronaut’s disease defenses on alert

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

This illustration made available by NASA shows the rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The exploratory vehicle landed on Jan. 24, 2004, and logged more than 28 miles (45 kilometers) before falling silent during a global dust storm in June 2018. There was so much dust in the Martian atmosphere that sunlight could not reach Opportunity's solar panels for power generation. (NASA via AP)

NASA Opportunity, Mars rover, finally bites the dust after 15 years

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This illustration made available by NASA shows the rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The exploratory vehicle landed on Jan. 24, 2004, and logged more than 28 miles (45 kilometers) before falling silent during a global dust storm in June 2018. There was so much dust in the Martian atmosphere that sunlight could not reach Opportunity's solar panels for power generation. (NASA via AP)

NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover, silent for 8 months

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Mark Kelly joins exclusive club of astronaut-politicians

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 file photo, SpaceX's Dragon capsule, right, sits in a SpaceX hangar in Cape Canaveral, Fla. On Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, officials set March 2 as the latest launch date for an unmanned test. If the demo goes well, two NASA astronauts will take a test flight in July. (AP Photo/Marcia Dunn)

NASA, SpaceX aim for March test of 1st new astronaut capsule

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - This illustration made available by NASA on March 29, 2018 shows the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft flying over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance. As of Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, NASA hasn’t heard from the briefcase-size spacecraft for more than a month - and doubts it ever will. The twin satellites shadowed NASA’s InSight lander to Mars in 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

Tiny satellites fall silent after proving new tech at Mars

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press