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Coolest space photos of the week

by JoAnna Wendel
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On May 27, Space X and NASA attempted to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from the US for the first time since 2011. Unfortunately, the launch was scrubbed due to weather and rescheduled for Saturday, May 30. Read more.

Mars once had a thick atmosphere like Earth’s, and scientists are still trying to figure out what happened to it. Scientists at NASA modeled electric currents in Mars’s atmosphere to help solve the mystery. Read more.

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