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‘Amazing milestone’ as NASA fully deploys Webb telescope in space

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The most powerful space telescope ever built completed a tricky two-week-long deployment phase Saturday, unfolding its final golden mirror panel, as it readies to...
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Costa Rica to create Space Agency; bill passed by Congress

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Appropriately, the news came on the day NASA landed the Perseverance rover on Mars.
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Costa Rica chosen as site for ‘next-generation’ space radar

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LeoLabs has chosen Costa Rica as the location of its next space radar, the United States-based company announced in a press release. 
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Meet Costa Rica’s newest NASA figure: Luis Diego Fonseca Flores

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Costa Rica may be small, but its people are achieving great things.
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NASA honors Hispanic Heritage Month with Tico astronaut

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Franklin Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican physicist who participated in seven Space Shuttle missions.
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Space Ticos: Astronaut Franklin Chang with Barack Obama in 2015

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A photo of Tico astronaut Franklin Chang with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office was chosen as one of 2015's best by White House photographers.
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How Costa Rican students talked to an astronaut on the International Space Station

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ARISS lets students from all over the world experience the excitement of talking directly with crew members of the International Space Station.
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Costa Rican schools conference with International Space Station

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Technology campuses in San Carlos and Cartago connected to the International Space Station.
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Space Ticos: Two Costa Ricans make headlines at NASA

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Three of NASA’s four science sections are led by women for the first time in the organization’s history.
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Costa Rica discusses creation of national space agency

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A law proposal to create a national space agency was presented before the Legislative Assembly.
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