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Wrapping up an extended 235-day mission, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday, targeting a pre-dawn Friday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. With Crew 8 “Endeavour” commander Matthew Dominick and co-pilot Michael Barrett monitoring cockpit displays, flanked on
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Capsule launches that will bring Starliner crew home SpaceX launches capsule that will give Starliner crew a ride home 01:51 The U.S. Space Force is tracking debris in space after a satellite manufactured by Boeing exploded earlier this week, the satellite’s operator said. The Intelsat 33e satellite, which was launched in 2016 and provides communications
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One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on Monday, sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter to find out if one of its moons hosts a habitable sub-surface ocean. Liftoff from the Kennedy Space
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SpaceX launches, recovers most powerful rocket ever built – CBS News Watch CBS News SpaceX on Sunday launched the world’s most powerful rocket and successfully recovered its first stage booster. Elise Preston has more on the achievement. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and
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The next full moon is due to appear this week in night skies all over the world. When it emerges, the phenomenon will hold a couple of notable titles. First, it’s the Hunter’s Moon, a centuries-old name for the full moon immediately following the autumnal equinox and the September Harvest Moon that rises with it,
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In one of the most dramatic, high-risk space flights to date, SpaceX launched a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship rocket on an unpiloted test flight Sunday and then used giant “mechazilla” mechanical arms on the pad gantry to pluck the descending first stage out of the sky in an unprecedented feat of engineering. The Super Heavy-Starship rocket,
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Northern lights put on a show over New York and New Jersey Northern lights put on a show over New York and New Jersey 03:59 The northern lights made an incredible display over much of the United States on Thursday — and might make a return appearance Friday night. The aurora borealis was visible as
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What to know about Hurricane Milton What to know about Hurricane Milton as Florida braces for storm 08:11 Photos and videos taken from space show the breadth of Hurricane Milton, a massive storm churning in the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida. The storm is expected to make landfall Wednesday night, likely as a Category 3, forecasters
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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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