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NASA plans to hold an unprecedented agency-level readiness review as early as the end of next week to decide if Boeing’s Starliner capsule can safely bring its two crew members back to Earth, a senior manager said Wednesday. If so, Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams could undock from the International Space
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The Perseid meteor shower will peak Sunday night, giving astronomy fans one of the best shows of 2024 as they look to the skies. The shower started in July and will continue through most of August, but it will peak overnight on Sunday into Monday, NASA said. The Perseids are considered the “best meteor shower
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SpaceX rocket launches 50 Starlink satellites SpaceX rocket launches 50 Starlink satellites into orbit 00:24 In the first launch of a planned weekend triple header, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites, 13 with direct-to-cell capability, blasted off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday and successfully delivered its payload to orbit. It was the 187th
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Disagreement over plans to return Starliner astronauts amid safety concerns – CBS News Watch CBS News NASA launched Boeing’s Starliner two months ago on a one-week mission. However, the two astronauts are still aboard the International Space Station and NASA says officials can’t agree if Starliner is safe to bring them home. A new plan
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Running a day late due to weather, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship loaded with more than four tons of supplies, spare parts, fresh food and science gear blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, kicking off a two-day rendezvous with the International Space Station. Despite an initially dismal
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified U.S. Space Force satellite — the booster’s final national security payload — blasted off from Cape Canaveral two minutes after sunrise Tuesday and streaked into space to kick off a secrecy-shrouded mission. Powered by a Russian-built RD-180 first stage engine and five Northrop Grumman strap-on
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SpaceX successfully launched three Falcon 9 rockets in rapid-fire fashion over the weekend, putting 67 Starlink satellites into orbit within three days of winning approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to resume launchings in the wake of a rare in-flight failure on July 11. SpaceX kicked off its return to flight by firing off 23
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Astronauts remain aboard ISS amid issues with Boeing’s Starliner – CBS News Watch CBS News Engineers say they’re still troubleshooting issues discovered aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that took NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into space. They were originally supposed to spend eight days aboard the International Space Station. They’ve now been up
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Critical tests are on tap this weekend to confirm Boeing’s Starliner capsule can safety carry its two-person crew back to Earth despite problems that emerged early in the mission, officials said Thursday. Unexpected helium leaks and degraded maneuvering thrusters, discovered during the ship’s rendezvous with the International Space Station in early June, triggered weeks of
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NASA is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its Chandra X-ray Observatory launch by sharing never-before-seen photos of the largest known spiral galaxy in the universe. The Chandra X-ray observatory was launched on July 23, 1999. Since then, it has scoured the universe to look for X-ray emissions from exploded stars, clusters of galaxies and more,
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