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2020 was a banner year for space exploration. In May, NASA returned to human spaceflight from the US for the first time in nearly a decade, with the liftoff of Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from Kennedy Space Center.
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A radio telescope tasked with searching for near-Earth asteroids has gone quiet after suffering damage to its 350 meter dish.
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Scientists who run the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico are getting a multi million dollar grant to improve the massive radio telescope. The $5.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation will pay for the design and installation of a super-sensitive antenna for the 1,000 ft. diameter dish.
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The University of Central Florida has raised more than 180 million dollars in research grants so far this year. It will mostly support research projects in the sciences and engineering.