Spacecraft
NASA test of mega Moon rocket engines cut short
NASA conducted a test firing of the engines for its giant Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket on Jan. 16 but they shut down earlier than planned, the space agency said.
The "hot-fire" test at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi was supposed to last a little over eight minutes - the time the engines would burn in flight - but they shut down just over a minute into the burn.
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule to make first of its kind science splashdown
Science returns from the space station through NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle
SpaceX launches Turkey’s new Turksat 5A satellite
SpaceX launched a Turkish communications satellite into orbit late on Jan. 7.
The technology company's Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the U.S. state of Florida, carrying the Turksat 5A satellite.
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Russia’s Roscosmos: Oxygen Leakage on International Space Station Under Control
Russia's Roscosmos will be able to send an additional supply of oxygen to the ISS in February, if necessary, General Director of the organization Dmitry Rogozin told reporters.
Chinese capsule returns to Earth carrying moon rocks
A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Dec. 17 with the first fresh rock samples from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into the history of the solar system and marking a new landmark for China's rapidly advancing space program.
Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule
Scientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space a week ago
Are aliens hiding in plain sight?
“NASA needs a definition of life so it knows how to build detectors and what kinds of instruments to use on its missions”
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Blue Origin Will Take First Woman Astronaut to the Moon
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon's surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Japanese space officials eager to analyze asteroid samples
Japanese space officials said they are excited about the return of a capsule that landed safely in the Australian Outback on Dec. 6 while carrying soil samples from a distant asteroid, and that they are eager to begin analyzing the "treasure" inside.
SpaceX's astronaut-riding Dragon approaches space station
SpaceX's astronaut-riding Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station on May 31, just hours after a historic liftoff from Florida.