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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampling Probe Completes Instrument Install/Assembly, Enters ‘Test Drive’ Phase

OSIRIS-Rex, the first American spacecraft ever aimed at snatching pristine samples from the surface of an asteroid and returning them…

9 years ago

Over the 50-plus years since President John F. Kennedy’s Rice University speech, spaceflight has proven to be hard. It doesn't…

10 years ago

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[/caption] On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt…

13 years ago

Deep Space 1 Missed Photo Opportunity with Asteroid NASA's advanced Deep Space 1 probe missed its chance to catch pictures…

25 years ago

Moon Crash Will Also Help Fulfill Geologist's Last Wish Killed in a car crash in Australia in 1997, Gene Shoemaker…

25 years ago

Safe Landing for Space Shuttle Columbia After an extremely short mission to deploy the Chandra X-Ray observatory, the Space Shuttle…

25 years ago

Prospector Could be Disabled by Eclipse Final plans for the Lunar Prospector spacecraft may run into a little snag. NASA…

25 years ago

Chandra Successfully Deployed from Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia has completed its primary mission - to deploy and launch the Chandra…

25 years ago

Columbia Launches Successfully After the Third Attempt After delays from bad weather, and a falsely detected hydrogen leak, the Space…

25 years ago

Columbia Launch Aborted For the Second Time Bad weather at Cape Canaveral scrubbed the launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia…

25 years ago