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

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Costa Rica to create Space Agency; bill passed by Congress

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Costa Rica chosen as site for ‘next-generation’ space radar

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Meet Costa Rica’s newest NASA figure: Luis Diego Fonseca Flores

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Costa Rica’s first satellite scheduled for deployment in one year

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A spacecraft of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will take the satellite to the International Space Station, for its deployment into space, likely at the end of the first quarter next year.

De San Antonio de Desamparados a las estrellas: hermanos costarricenses brillan en la NASA

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From San Antonio de Desamparados to the stars: Costa Rican brothers shine at NASA

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A snorkeling accident leads Tico Times contributer and space education advocate Bruce Callow to meet two new Costa Rican NASA superstars: Alejandro (Alex) and Joseph Mora.

NASA dream comes true for Costa Rican teens

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It was a long road to Cape Canaveral, but these young Costa Ricans are just getting started.

Franklin Chang’s VASIMR plasma engine readies for key test

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The VASIMR engine being developed by Costa Rican physicist Franklin Chang Díaz is one step closer to proving itself the best technology for propelling the next generation of spacecraft.

Costa Rica makes nuclear fusion history with plasma discharge

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Researchers at the Technology Institute of Costa Rica (TEC) announced the first discharge of high temperature plasma in Latin America on Wednesday, joining an elite group of countries who have made advances in harnessing nuclear fusion to produce clean energy.

Costa Rica’s first satellite project enters decisive stage

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Officials of the Costa Rica-based Central American Association for Aeronautics and Space (ACAE) on Monday announced they will launch a crowdfunding campaign to raise $75,000 needed to orbit the first Costa Rica satellite, a small device called picosatellite.

NASA astronauts celebrate mission anniversary in Costa Rica

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Four of the seven crew members of NASA’s STS-61C mission, including Tico astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz, met Friday in Costa Rica to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their mission on board space shuttle Columbia.

Costa Rica to host UN meeting on space technology

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Costa Rica will host the workshop on Human Space Technology of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), March 7-11.

Photo of Tico astronaut Franklin Chang with Barack Obama among best White House pics of 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 the year's best by White House photographers.