NASA still is not sure when two astronauts might come home in Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft.
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Astronomers are scrambling to save the world’s most powerful X-ray space telescope
NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don’t want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.
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NASA says it accidentally sent out an emergency signal meant for training purposes
A NASA simulation accidentally aired on the space agency’s livestream. NASA said all crew members are healthy, safe and preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday.
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NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who took famous photo of Earth during Apollo, dies at 90
Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and “how tiny and fragile and precious and finite it is.”
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Private mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope raises concerns, NASA emails show
When a private space traveler said he wanted to take a SpaceX capsule on a mission to improve the aging Hubble telescope, NASA studied the options. Internal emails show concern about the risk.
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NASA’s chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here’s why
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he trusts SpaceX, despite Elon Musk’s increasingly controversial profile.
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He missed a chance to be the first Black astronaut. Now, at 90, he’s going into space
Edward J. Dwight Jr. is set to be on the next Blue Origin rocket into space. The rare opportunity comes more than six decades after he was passed over to become a NASA astronaut.
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Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense
After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.
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NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, famed for U.S.-Soviet orbital handshake, has died at 93
Tom Stafford commanded the first Apollo mission to dock with a Soviet craft in space. He also served as commander of Apollo 10 – the dress rehearsal before NASA’s first landing on the moon in 1969.
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Private company Intuitive Machines is set to land on the moon. Here’s what to know
The Houston-based company hopes to make the first successful commercial landing on the lunar surface. It would also be America’s first soft landing in decades.
