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Washington — A group of Black women central to NASA’s success during the space race and known as the “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday in a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. “This has been a long time coming,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said at the ceremony. “At a time in America
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Polaris Dawn crew safely splashes down after historic spacewalk – CBS News Watch CBS News Four SpaceX astronauts safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. The Polaris Dawn crew completed the first-ever commercial spacewalk during their historic mission and tested a new type of spacesuit. View CBS News In Be the first
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Groundbreaking commercial Polaris Dawn space mission splashes down – CBS News Watch CBS News The groundbreaking commercial space mission known as Polaris Dawn successfully splashed down early Sunday morning. The historic five-day mission, flown by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman and three crew mates, included the first ever commercial spacewalk. View CBS News In Be the
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After setting an altitude record and staging the first non-government spacewalk, billionaire Jared Isaacman and his three crewmates returned to Earth early Sunday, plunging back into the atmosphere aboard their Crew Dragon spacecraft for an on-target splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. With Isaacman and pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet monitoring cockpit displays, flanked by SpaceX
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Polaris Dawn astronaut delivers violin performance from space – CBS News Watch CBS News Astronaut Sarah Gillis, who took part in Polaris Dawn’s historic spacewalk earlier this week, delivered a violin performance from the mission. The performance was synced with an orchestra on Earth. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser
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The two Starliner astronauts said Friday they had no regrets about NASA’s decision to extend their mission and to bring their spacecraft back to Earth without them, saying they had turned the page and were enjoying the transition to full-time space station astronauts. Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams, both former Navy
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SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew attempts first-ever commercial spacewalk – CBS News Watch CBS News A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts performed the first-ever commercial spacewalk Thursday morning. It is the first time a company, not a government space program, has performed a spacewalk. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications
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While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz ferry ship for a six-month tour of duty. Space station veteran Donald Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut at
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Faced with a frustrating stretch of bad wether locally and off shore, SpaceX geared up Monday for another attempt to launch a privately funded mission — Polaris Dawn — aimed at setting a post-Apollo altitude record and staging the first non-government commercial spacewalk. Assuming final clearance to proceed, billionaire commander Jared Isaacman, pilot Scott Poteet
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Leaving its crew behind in orbit, Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Friday and chalked up a successful unpiloted return to Earth, closing out a disappointing test flight with an on-target New Mexico touchdown. Despite NASA’s concerns about earlier thruster problems and multiple helium leaks in the ship’s propulsion pressurization system,
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