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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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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander closed in on the moon Saturday, on course for a nail-biting automated descent to touchdown early Sunday, the first of three private-sector robotic moon landers to reach its target after launches earlier this year. The Blue Ghost lunar lander spent a month orbiting Earth after launch atop a Falcon 9
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Gayle King is about to blast off. The “CBS Mornings” co-host was announced Thursday as part of the crew for Blue Origin’s next flight to the boundary of space. The historic flight, comprised of all women, is expected to launch this spring. Joining King on the mission will be pop superstar Katy Perry, journalist and
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With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, the centerpiece of a multi-element NASA-sponsored mission to help pave the way for human expeditions. The workhorse rocket’s nine first-stage engines roared to life at 7:16 p.m. EST, pushing the booster
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Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week, creating a brief chance to see a “planetary parade.” Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the naked eye, according to Space.com and other sites that track celestial events. For
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