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In this frame from NASA TV, the SpaceX Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. The capsule pulled up Wednesday following a two-day flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (NASA TV via AP)

SpaceX Dragon delivers scientific bounty to space station

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this photo provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft await liftoff from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. SpaceX is about to launch a few tons of research to the International Space Station — plus ice cream. (Kim Shiflett/NASA via AP)

SpaceX launches experiments, ice cream to space station

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

The downtown business district of Makanda, Illinois that is marketing itself as the &quot;Solar Eclipse Crossroads of America&quot; as seen on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Makanda will get two minutes, 40.2 seconds of darkness during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, more than anywhere else in the United States. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Makanda braces as coveted total solar eclipse viewing spot

By VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN - Associated Press

9-year-old wants to be NASA’s ‘planetary protection officer’

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FILE - In this June 29, 2017 file photo, David Chrismon, left, a member of Guilford Technical Community College's student astronomy club, the Stellar Society, watches as Steve Desch, an astronomy instructor, sets up a telescope in Jamestown, N.C., that the group will use on their trip to Newberry, S.C. to observe a solar eclipse on Aug. 21. (Laura Greene/The High Point Enterprise via AP)

US in rare bull’s-eye for total solar eclipse on Aug. 21

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

North Dakota students work with NASA to improve 3D printing

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Wisconsin cork company helping with NASA project

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U.S. astronaut Randy Bresnik, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), waves to his family from a bus prior the launch of Soyuz MS-05 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, July 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)

Space capsule with 3 astronauts blasts off to orbiting lab

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South Dakota ranch kid turns NASA rocket scientist

By ABBY PETERSEN - Associated Press

In a July 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, the payload fairing for NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M, is inspected prior to encapsulating the spacecraft, inside the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. NASA said Monday, July 17, 2017, that one of the antennas on the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, was damaged last Friday. The mishap could delay what was supposed to be an Aug. 3 liftoff aboard an Atlas V (five) rocket. (Glenn Benson/NASA via AP)

NASA communications satellite damaged 3 weeks before launch

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, July 13, 2017 photo, NASA astronaut Victor Glover signals back up to astronaut Daniel Burbank that he is OK after jumping into the Gulf of Mexico from the Orion capsule the astronauts are using to practice an emergency egress situation during recovery testing about four miles off of Galveston Island, Texas. The testing is the first time since the Apollo program that NASA has practiced such egress techniques from a capsule in open water. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Mars mission astronauts rehearse water landings off Texas

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This enhanced-color image made available by NASA shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot on Monday, July 10, 2017. The image was created using data from the Juno spacecraft during its seventh close flyby of the planet. (Seán Doran/Gerald Eichstädt/MSSS/SwRI/NASA via AP)

Spacecraft reveals beauty of solar system’s biggest storm

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Research institute has front seat for total eclipse

By KAREN CHAVEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 7, 2017 file photo, Vice President Mike Pence tours the historic Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, after welcoming in a new class of astronauts. On Thursday, Kuly 6, 2017, Pence, who is leading a newly revived National Space Council, will address employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Michael Ciaglo/ Houston Chronicle via AP)

Vice president gets insider look at Kennedy Space Center

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Correction: Solar Eclipse-Kentucky story

By ALEX SANZ - Associated Press

Naval Academy aide among NASA’s 12 new astronaut candidates

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This undated photo made available by NASA on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 shows the 2017 NASA Astronaut Class at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left are Zena Cardman, Jasmin Moghbeli, Jonny Kim, Frank Rubio, Matthew Dominick, Warren Hoburg, Robb Kulin, Kayla Barron, Bob Hines, Raji Chari, Loral O' Hara and Jessica Watkins. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

NASA picks 12 new astronauts from crush of applicants

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A SpaceX Dragon approaches the International Space Station on Monday, June 5, 2017, making an unprecedented second trip to the orbiting outpost. The Dragon supply ship, recycled following a 2014 flight, was launched from Florida on Saturday. (NASA TV via AP)

Space station welcomes 1st returning vehicle since shuttle

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX is trying again to launch its first recycled supply ship to the International Space Station. Forecasters at Florida's Kennedy Space Center are cautiously optimistic storms won't halt Saturday afternoon's countdown like they did Thursday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

SpaceX launches 1st recycled supply ship

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Virginia astronaut nurtures dreams in a new book

By CASEY GILLIS - Associated Press