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The Axiom Space Ax-4 mission led by record-setting Peggy Whitson making her fifth trip to space is set to launch with three men from countries that have not sent a person to space in more than ...

The next presidential election is still a few years away, but Arizona's senators could be contenders in a wide-open ...

The next presidential election is still a few years away, but Arizona's senators could be contenders in a wide-open ...

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A series of powerful explosions rocked Tehran early Tuesday morning, hours after US President Donald Trump announced that ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...