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After days of uncertainty, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Sunday that SpaceX had been cleared to press ahead with the planned Monday launch of the European Space Agency’s $398 million Hera asteroid probe, stormy weather permitting. With forecasters calling for an 85% chance of thick clouds and showers that would trigger a delay, Hera’s launch
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United Launch Alliance fired off a next-generation Vulcan rocket Friday in the second of two “certification” test flights needed before the new launcher can be used to carry high-priority national security payloads for the U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. United Launch Alliance’s second next-generation Vulcan rocket climbs away from pad 41 at
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Scientists have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, offering clues about the origins of the space rock and other celestial objects in the distant solar system. Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared spectrograph instrument, astronomers at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, gathered new
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A day after launching from the Kennedy Space Center, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft caught up with the International Space Station and moved in for docking Sunday, bringing a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut to the outpost to join two Starliner astronauts for a five-month tour of duty. The rendezvous came amid word from
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SpaceX launched a reduced two-man crew on a flight to the International Space Station Saturday, along with supplies and a pair of empty seats for two Starliner astronauts waiting to hitch a ride home in February after an unexpected eight-and-a-half-month stay in orbit. Running two days late because of high winds, rain and clouds spawned
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NASA’s 10th Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station is ready for launch Saturday with two long-duration crew members on board along with two empty seats that will be used next February to carry Boeing’s Starliner astronauts back to Earth after an extended stay in orbit. Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut
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Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, now the world’s most experienced spaceman, first-time flier Nikolai Chub and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth on Monday, closing out a record-setting mission with a picture-perfect landing in Kazakhstan. With the Soyuz crew back home, NASA and SpaceX are gearing up to launch
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Washington — A group of Black women central to NASA’s success during the space race and known as the “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday in a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. “This has been a long time coming,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said at the ceremony. “At a time in America
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Polaris Dawn crew safely splashes down after historic spacewalk – CBS News Watch CBS News Four SpaceX astronauts safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. The Polaris Dawn crew completed the first-ever commercial spacewalk during their historic mission and tested a new type of spacesuit. View CBS News In Be the first
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Groundbreaking commercial Polaris Dawn space mission splashes down – CBS News Watch CBS News The groundbreaking commercial space mission known as Polaris Dawn successfully splashed down early Sunday morning. The historic five-day mission, flown by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman and three crew mates, included the first ever commercial spacewalk. View CBS News In Be the
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