Tag: NASA
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Legendary astronaut John W. Young dies
John Young pictured through spacecraft window prior to launch of Gemini 3 mission. Photo: NASA. Legendary astronaut John Young, who twice ventured into space in pioneering two-man Gemini capsules, orbited the moon and then walked on its cratered surface before commanding two space shuttle missions, including the program’s maiden flight, has passed away. NASA confirmed…
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Doll of the year: 2018’s top American Girl is an aspiring astronaut named Luciana Vega
A doll named Luciana Vega is unveiled as the American Girl of the Year for 2018 on ABC’s “Good Morning America” as Space Camp girls look on. (ABC / GMA) American Girl put a Space Age spin on the centuries-old tradition of dress-up dolls today by unveiling a spacesuit-clad character named Luciana Vega as its…
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Iconic free-flying shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless passes away at the age of 80
News Brief: Retired astronaut Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut to fly untethered from his spacecraft, has died at the age of 80. NASA said McCandless passed away on Thursday in California, but gave no cause of death. The former naval aviator flew in space twice. During a spacewalk in 1984, McCandless tested a hand-controlled…
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NASA picks a drone for Titan and a return to a comet as prospects for future probes
An artist’s conception shows the sequence leading to the landing of the Dragonfly probe and the deployment of its rotorcraft on Titan. (NASA Illustration) A rotorcraft that could flit around the Saturnian moon Titan and a probe that could bring a sample back from an already-famous comet have emerged as top prospects for a future…
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Juno probe’s new Jupiter pictures rate a 10
A processed picture from NASA’s Juno orbiter shows Jupiter’s mid-northern temperate belts. Click on the picture for a larger version. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kevin M. Gill – CC BY 2.0) It’s been just three days since NASA’s Juno orbiter had its most recent close encounter with Jupiter, but image-processing gurus…
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A new trio settles in on the space station
The six space station crewmates of Expedition 54 face the camera after their orbital meetup. Upper row: Joe Acaba, Alexander Misurkin and Mark Vande Hei. Lower row: Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov and Norishige Kanai. (NASA TV) News Brief: The International Space Station’s crew is back up to its full complement of six, thanks to today’s…
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SpaceX takes rocket reusability to new heights with launch to space station
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (NASA via YouTube) For the first time, SpaceX has sent a refurbished Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station from a refurbished launch pad, atop a refurbished Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon lifted off at 10:35 a.m. ET (7:35 a.m.…
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Our solar system has met its match: AI helps scientists find a star’s eighth planet
We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours. NASA today announced details about the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a sunlike star that’s 2,545 light years from Earth. The planet, dubbed Kepler-90i, is a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its…
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Live coverage: Space station crew back on Earth
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Soyuz carries three station crew members back to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-05 descent module just before touchdown in Kazakhstan on Thursday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three space station crew members hurtled back to Earth Thursday, completing a fiery plunge back through the atmosphere before settling to a frigid touchdown on the snowy…