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By KIMBERLY MERFERT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (mocsnews.com) – Over three decades after NASA sent the spacecraft Magellan into Venus’s orbit in 1989, NASA is returning to hot, humid Venus, Earth’s closest, most ignored neighbor in the solar system. During his first address to NASA employees on Wednesday, Bill Nelson, the …

By Shianne Vincent ATLANTA (mocsnews.com) — Kate Rubins, a NASA astronaut of 11 years, plans to cast her electoral vote from the International Space Station. Rubins is a resident of Houston, Texas and voting from space is allowed under Texas law. Rubins said, “it’s critical to participate in our democracy. …