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With a fresh crew now aboard the International Space Station, the four fliers they are replacing — including long-delayed Starliner astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams — undocked early Tuesday for a long-awaited return to Earth, finally closing out an extended 286-day space odyssey. Launched last June aboard Boeing’s problem-plagued Starliner capsule, Wilmore and
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The Crew 10 Dragon capsule caught up with the International Space Station and moved in for a textbook docking early Sunday, bringing four fresh crew members to the lab and clearing the way for the Starliner astronauts to return to Earth after nearly 300 days in space. Approaching from behind and below, the Crew Dragon,
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NASA’s next International Space Station crew blasted off Friday, finally clearing the way for Starliner astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams to be ferried home next week by two other outgoing station crew members, finally closing out an extended space odyssey. Crew-10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian
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NASA, SpaceX launch Starliner astronauts’ replacement crew – CBS News Watch CBS News Following multiple delays, a SpaceX rocket carrying four astronauts finally blasted off Friday bound for the International Space Station on a flight that sets the stage for Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to finally come home after nearly 300 days
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A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet’s small, mysterious moon. The space probe, named Hera, was launched on Oct. 7, 2024, and is on a mission to gather close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, the European Space Agency said in a news release. The asteroid was the first to have
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A “Blood Moon” eclipse is coming this weekend A “Blood Moon” eclipse is coming this weekend 02:35 Get ready for March’s full “Blood Worm Moon,” a phenomenon that will make the moon appear red during a total lunar eclipse. The full moon reaches peak illumination at 2:55 a.m. ET on Friday, March 14. The total
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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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