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NASA is naming a spacecraft after a Bradley University graduate who was the first African American chosen to be an astronaut.Chicago native Robert H.…
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CHICAGO (AP) - Bradley University in Peoria is a key player in an ongoing competition aimed at deploying 3-D printers to build habitats on Mars if and…
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The University of Illinois is preparing to launch its newest fundraising campaign with an event that one school official calls "one part Ted Talk and one…
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A federal judge has ruled that a bag used to collect lunar samples during the first manned mission to the moon legally belongs to an Illinois woman who…
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Bradley University and Caterpillar are teaming up with NASA for what’s being called the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. The goal is for teams to develop…
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July is the Month of Pluto in a northern Illinois city.NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft is expected to pass Pluto at its closest point next week. The…
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You may not have heard much about it, but Thursday represents an important day for the U.S. Space program. NASA plans to launch its Orion spacecraft and…
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NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins delivered the commencement address on Saturday at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hopkins himself graduated…
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Retired astronaut Jim Lovell was in Chicago today, recreating Apollo 8's famous Christmas Eve broadcast from 1968. As Brian Mackey reports, the original…
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A NASA astronaut who graduated from the University of Illinois spoke to U of I students Tuesday from orbit. IPR’s Sean Powers reports: Students wait in a…