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Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Asteroids Can Have Rings, Spiders That Nurse Their Young, and “Lord of the Forest” Tāne Mahuta

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Learn about why asteroids can have rings; spiders that actually nurse their young; and Tāne Mahuta, a massive tree that’s been known to bring visitors to tears.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Is Water Wet? Plus: Neutron Star Weight and A Trick to Keep Experiences Feeling Fresh and New

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

NASA SpaceX Crew-1, We Have Liftoff!

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(Updated: November 16, 2020) After multiple delays, the NASA SpaceX Crew-1 Mission launched on Sunday, November 15th at 7:27P ET. This historic milestone marks the first operational mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with four astronauts and kicks off the gateway to the second golden age of space exploration. Here's everything that happened on launch day.

Space Launch LIVE | Josh Gates Chats With NASA Astronauts

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Josh Gates speaks with NASA Astronauts Doug Hurley, Bob Behnken and Commander Cassidy on board the International Space Station. From their moments at the ISS to the recap of the spacewalks, the astronauts share their stories.

Behind the Scenes of NASA and SpaceX's Scrubbed Launch

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Crew-2 Dock with ISS

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Following liftoff on April 23rd at 5:49A ET, the Crew-2 astronauts traveled for about 23 hours in Endeavor, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, to arrive safely at the International Space Station.

The First Images

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See the first images sent back to earth from NASA's Mars Rover: Perseverance. After a harrowing journey, the rover successfully landed on the red planet on February 18, 2021.

NASA and SpaceX Success

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SpaceX successfully sent NASA astronauts on the first privately-owned, crewed spaceflight. In this video, Nick Uhas recaps every exciting moment of this historic event.

Crew-3 Liftoff to the ISS

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Following a series of delays, NASA and SpaceX's third crewed mission to space successfully launched the evening of Wednesday, November 10.

There Isn’t a Door on Mars, but there are Some Cool Rocks

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I’ll be the first to admit that it would be really, really cool if we found evidence of life on Mars. It would revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos, help us understand our origins, and give us some bugs and/or friends to play with.

The New Journey to Space

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NASA Launch of SpaceX Capsule to Air Live on Discovery and Science Channel

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(Updated) The May 30th launch is set to mark the first launch on US soil with US astronauts in nine years. Watch SPACE LAUNCH LIVE: AMERICA RETURNS TO SPACE on Discovery starting at 2P ET.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Parents Rarely Pass Their Politics to Their Kids, Source of Peanut Allergies Found in the Gut, and Why Stars Don’t Make the Night Sky Bright

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Learn about the perception-adoption model, which says that most parents don’t pass their political ideology to their kids; how researchers found the source of peanut allergies in the human gut; and Olbers’ Paradox, which asks why the night sky is so dark if stars are so bright