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NASA is finally ready to launch its next space station crew, clearing the way for Starliner astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams to head back to Earth more than nine months after they took off on what they thought would be an eight-day stay in space. Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers,
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NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were
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Astronomy fans are in for a treat this March as the full moon will appear to turn red during a total lunar eclipse. March’s full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will pass into Earth’s shadow on the night of March 13, or early on March 14, depending on the time zone, according to NASA.
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An unmanned spaceplane sent into Earth’s orbit in late 2023 returned on Friday, landing at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base overnight, the U.S. Space Force said on Friday. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 was launched into space by SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for a classified, long-duration military mission for the U.S. Space Force on Dec. 29,
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SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program’s eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to reach its planned sub-orbital altitude, breaking apart in a spectacular shower of debris. It was the second failure in a row for a Starship upper
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Amanda Nguyen, who transformed personal trauma into landmark legislation for sexual assault survivors, now has her sights set on making history among the stars as the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman in space. Appearing on “CBS Mornings” on Thursday, Nguyen said she is not afraid about her upcoming Blue Origin flight. “I really think
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Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called “city killer.” “This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen very
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Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore said Tuesday he did not think politics played any role in the crew’s extended mission, but he did not directly address earlier comments by President Trump and Elon Musk that the crew had been “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration. “Obviously, we’ve heard some of these different things that
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Firefly Aerospace’s “Blue Ghost” lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown early Sunday, pulling off the first fully successful moon landing by a commercially-built and operated robotic spacecraft. A dramatic photo beamed back from a camera on the Blue Ghost lander shows the spacecraft’s shadow on the moon shortly after
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Texas company pulls off first fully successful commercial moon landing – CBS News Watch CBS News Firefly Aerospace’s “Blue Ghost” lander touched down on the Moon on Sunday, becoming the first fully successful commercial moon landing. Mark Strassmann reports. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live
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