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Space Station Trio Returns Safely to Earth for Rare Night Landing After 141 Day Mission
Plummeting to Earth during a fiery atmospheric reentry within the cramped confines of their Russian Soyuz capsule, an international trio…
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Cygnus Docks at Station for Christmas Delivery to Successfully Resume American Resupply Chain
The commercial Cygnus cargo spaceship, loaded with over three tons of critically needed supplies and research experiments, successfully rendezvoused and…
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Spectacular Blastoff of Atlas Cygnus Ignites Restart of American Cargo Missions to ISS
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Today’s spectacular blastoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying an Orbital ATK…
Our Highest Resolution Views Yet of Pluto’s Surface
The New Horizons spacecraft has been slowly sending back all the images and data it gathered during its July flyby…
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Happy Marriage of ULA and Orbital ATK Set for Atlas V Blastoff of Cygnus Freighter to ISS on Dec. 6 – Watch NASA TV Live; Photos
After its disaster last year, Orbital ATK is ready to visit the International Space station again with its Cygnus resupply…
Spacecraft Launches to Test the Hunt for Ripples in the Fabric of Spacetime
The European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder, a spacecraft designed to demonstrate technology for observing gravitational waves in…
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Orion Gets Beefed Up, Silver-Metallic Thermal Protection Coating for Next Flight on EM-1
In the wake of NASA’s supremely successful inaugural test flight of the Orion deep space capsule on the EFT-1 mission…
First Mirror Installed on NASA’s Webb Telescope, Final Assembly Phase Starts
After years of construction, the first of 18 primary flight mirrors has been installed onto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Do Comets Explain Mystery Star’s Bizarre Behavior?
The story of KIC 8462852 appears far from over. You'll recall NASA's Kepler mission had monitored the star for four years,…
See Daytime Views of Pluto and Charon’s Rotation
A day on Pluto is 6.4 Earth days (6 days 9 hours and 36 minutes) long. That’s a lengthy, cold,…