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  Space news: Tiny moon explorers, a debate about the expanding universe, and more.

  NPR - Regina G. Barber , Berly McCoy

  In this space news roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about tiny autonomous "transformers" that can explore the moon, a debate about the expanding universe, and more. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Here with another edition of spacing out with our friends from Short Wave, Regina …

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  A Virginia group wants to stop NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery from moving to Texas

  NPR - Ryan Benk , David Folkenflik , Jacob Fenston

  Two senators from Texas want to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. NPR's David Folkenflik talks with activist Joe Stief of the group Keep The Shuttle.

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  Space X IPO and the economics of space exploration

  NPR - Michael Levitt , Janaya Williams , Zephyr Weinreich, Adrian Florido , Daniel Ofman

  NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Micah Maidenberg about Space X's IPO and what it means for the economics of space exploration.

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  SpaceX pulls off the largest Initial Public Offering in global history

  NPR - Geoff Brumfiel , Elissa Nadworny

  SpaceX had an enormous IPO on Friday, but is it really worth the price?

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  A hardworking spacecraft in Mars orbit has gone dark

  NPR - Gurjit Kaur , Christopher Intagliata , Ailsa Chang

  NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shannon Curry, principal investigator on NASA's MAVEN mission, about the spacecraft's decade of observations of Mars.

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  NASA names crew for Artemis III mission

  NPR - Brendan Byrne

  NASA has named the crew of next year's Artemis III mission. The four astronauts will orbit the Earth and practice rendezvous techniques and other tasks to simulate skills needed for a lunar landing.