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  "title": "A forgotten mission: NASA once planned to send astronauts to Venus",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/a-forgotten-mission-nasa-once-planned-to-send-astronauts-to-venus",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-09T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/6017650-space-history-proposed-venus-voyage/"
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  "summary": "One of the concepts, a Venus flyby mission, would have been a bold undertaking indeed.",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/on-this-day-in-space-aug-7-1980-nasas-viking-1-mars-orbiter-shuts",
        "published": "2026-08-07T14:14:51.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Engadget",
        "title": "One of NASA's Mars rovers could find itself promised to the moon instead",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/one-of-nasas-mars-rovers-could-find-itself-promised-to-the-moon",
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        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "NASA mission maps invisible heat loss from Earth's rapidly changing poles",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/nasa-mission-maps-invisible-heat-loss-from-earths-rapidly-changing",
        "published": "2026-08-10T12:20:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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