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Virgin Galactic rocket ship ascends from New Mexico

11:59 pm May 22, 2021

Santafe: Virgin Galactic on Saturday made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, as the company forges toward offering tourist flights to the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere. Virgin Galactic announced the firing of VSS Unity’s rocket motor to hurtle the ship and two pilots toward space. A live feed […]

SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown

3:32 pm May 2, 2021

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: SpaceX returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3 a.m., ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s […]

NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, will search for signs of life

2:01 pm February 19, 2021

Washington: After a nearly seven month journey through space, Perseverance — the largest and the most advanced rover NASA has ever sent to another world — successfully touched down on the surface of Mars on Friday in a nail-biting landing that marks its first step in the search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Packed […]

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

11:49 pm February 17, 2021

Cape Canaveral: Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust storm only to spit out a single fuzzy gray picture before dying. Almost 50 years after the first casualty at Mars, NASA is attempting its hardest Martian touchdown yet. The rover named Perseverance is headed […]

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Spacewalking astronauts venture out to improve European lab

8:20 pm January 27, 2021

Cape Canaveral: A pair of astronauts went spacewalking Wednesday to install a high-speed data link outside the International Space Station’s European lab. NASA’s Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover floated out early and headed straight to Columbus, one of the three high-tech labs at the orbiting outpost. They hauled with them a fancy new antenna for […]

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