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A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket stands ready for launch on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. The Falcon Heavy scheduled to launch Tuesday afternoon, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

SpaceX’s big new rocket blasts off, puts sports car in space

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Dec. 28, 2017 photo made available by SpaceX shows a Falcon Heavy rocket in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With more than 5 million pounds of liftoff thrust the Heavy will be capable of lifting super-size satellites into orbit and sending spacecraft to the moon, Mars and beyond. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX launches new megarocket with Tesla car on board

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Dec. 28, 2017 photo made available by SpaceX shows a Falcon Heavy rocket in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With more than 5 million pounds of liftoff thrust the Heavy will be capable of lifting super-size satellites into orbit and sending spacecraft to the moon, Mars and beyond. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX’s hot new monster rocket ready for first test flight

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

IU professor to become planetary protection officer for NASA

By MICHAEL RESCHKE - Associated Press

This Dec. 28, 2017 photo made available by SpaceX shows a Falcon Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. On Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, the rocket's three boosters — 27 engines in all — were tested. SpaceX is aiming for a February launch. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX fires engines on big new rocket in launch pad test

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Scott Tingle work outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, to give the robot arm a new hand. (NASA TV via AP)

Spacewalking astronauts give new hand to robot arm

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Anacortes company aids NASA research in Antarctica

By KIMBERLY CAUVEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 1985 file photo, Christa McAuliffe tries out the commander's seat on the flight deck of a shuttle simulator at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Thirty-two years after the Challenger disaster, a pair of teachers turned astronauts on the International Space Station will pay tribute to McAuliffe by carrying out her science classes. (AP Photo)

Christa McAuliffe’s lost lessons finally taught in space

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this Sept. 16, 2014, file photo provided by NASA, astronaut Jeanette Epps participates in a spacewalk training session at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In June 2018, Epps was supposed to be the first African-American to live on the International Space Station, but on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, NASA announced it was pulling her off the mission for undisclosed reasons. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

Jeanette Epps, black NASA astronaut set to make space station history, removed from flight

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 16, 2014, file photo provided by NASA, astronaut Jeanette Epps participates in a spacewalk training session at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In June 2018, Epps was supposed to be the first African-American to live on the International Space Station, but on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, NASA announced it was pulling her off the mission for undisclosed reasons. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

NASA bumps astronaut off space station flight in rare move

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Joe Acaba, right, aboard the International Space Station, takes questions from students at the Puerto Rico Institute of Robotics in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday, Jan 12, 2018. One student asked how Puerto Rico looked from space after Hurricane Maria struck in September 2017. Acaba says the first thing he noticed was the lack of electricity, making the island almost impossible to see at night. (NASA via AP)

Puerto Rican astronaut reaches out to island’s schoolkids

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this April 1972 photo made available by NASA, John Young salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes landing site on the moon during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity. NASA says the astronaut, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, died on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. He was 87. (Charles M. Duke Jr./NASA via AP)

John Young, NASA moonwalker, dies at 87

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This 1965 photo made available by NASA shows John Young during the Gemini 3 mission. NASA says the astronaut, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, died on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. He was 87. (NASA via AP)

NASA: Legendary astronaut, moonwalker John Young has died

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This April, 2017, photo provided by the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys shows geologist Katreen Wikstrom Jones using an avalanche probe to measure snow depth at Thompson Pass, Alaska. Researchers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are looking for backcountry enthusiasts who want to aid a science mission. A program funded by NASA is recruiting citizen scientists to measure snow levels in mountain terrain. (Gabriel Wolken/Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys via AP)

Scientists seek US backcountry skiers to measure snowpack

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

This Feb. 7, 1984 photo made available by NASA shows astronaut Bruce McCandless II, participating in a spacewalk a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger, using a nitrogen-propelled Manned Maneuvering Unit. The Johnson Space Center says McCandless died Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 in California. (NASA via AP)

NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80

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NASA researchers working on lunar rover mini science lab

By ALEX STUCKEY - Associated Press

In a Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017 photovprovided by NASA, from front left, NASA’s Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency joined, from back left; Expedition 54 Commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and crewmates Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the orbiting laboratory officially opened Tuesday. (NASA via AP)

Space station gets 3 new astronauts, making full house again

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image taken from NASA Television, the robotic arm reaches out and captures the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft for docking to the International Space Station, Sunday Dec. 17, 2017. SpaceX launched the Dragon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday, using a previously flown Falcon rocket. It was the first time SpaceX had flown a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on top. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX capsule back at space station with pre-Christmas haul

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from newly refurbished Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. The rocket is carrying supplies to the International Space Station. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX 1st: Recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press