STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a Senate confirmation hearing April 21. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Biden administration’s $24.8 billion fiscal 2022 budget request for NASA will keep the agency on track to send the the first woman and the next man to the moon as early as 2024, …
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These photos show the liftoff from Cape Canaveral and climb into space of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday. The launch carried 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit and set a new record for payload fairing reuse, with one half of the nose cone making its fifth flight. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 launcher lifted …
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One of the cameras on the Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument took this picture of the Ingenuity helicopter April 9. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter safely landed after wobbling, suffering power spikes, and enduring velocity fluctuations on its sixth flight at Mars, officials said Wednesday. The helicopter took off May 22 on its sixth automated flight …
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Artist’s concept of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace has selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch the company’s first commercial lunar lander mission in 2023 with 10 NASA-sponsored research payloads. The Blue Ghost lander, which Firefly will build at its Texas manufacturing center, will aim for landing in the Mare Crisium …
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An astronaut on the International Space Station took this picture during an orbital sunrise in April 2021. Credit: NASA The Biden administration announced this week that NASA will develop a series of five Earth science satellite missions over the next decade, part of a $2.5 billion program called the Earth System Observatory to collect climate …
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A rear camera on China’s Zhurong rover looks back at its landing platform after driving onto the Martian surface May 21. Credit: CNSA The Chinese solar-powered Zhurong rover has driven onto the surface of Mars, making China the second nation to operate a mobile robot on another planet. The China National Space Administration said the …
A Russian Soyuz booster and Fregat upper stage rode a specialized rail car to a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome Monday, moving into position for liftoff Thursday with the next 36 satellites for OneWeb’s growing global internet network. The 15-story Soyuz-2.1b booster is set to take off from Vostochny, Russia’s newest spaceport in the …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 Monday afternoon at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now SpaceX rolled out a Falcon 9 rocket Monday to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a liftoff scheduled Wednesday with the next batch of Starlink …
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NASA astronaut Kayla Barron. Credit: NASA NASA has assigned astronaut Kayla Barron to join three crewmates on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft set to launch to the International Space Station in October, rounding out a four-person team after the space agency was unable to secure an agreement to add a Russian cosmonaut to the mission. Barron, …
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane fires its rocket motor to begin an ascent to the edge of space Saturday. Credit: Virgin Galactic Two pilots flew Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocketplane to the edge of space Saturday over New Mexico on the first human spaceflight from the company’s new home base at Spaceport America. Commercial astronauts Rick …
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