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Space.com

Polaris Dawn has landed. The historic SpaceX astronaut mission — which conducted the first-ever private spacewalk, among other achievements —returned to Earth today (Sept. 15), splashing down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida at …

BBC News

In June two American astronauts left Earth expecting to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS). But after fears that their Boeing Starliner spacecraft was unsafe to fly back on, Nasa delayed Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s return …

Spaceflight Now

Flying along a southwest-to-northeast trajectory, the Crew Dragon capsule, carrying billionaire Jared Isaacman, pilot Scott Poteet and company engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, is expected to fire its braking rockets at 2:40 a.m. EDT Sunday to drop …

NPR

DETROW: That is astronaut Reid Wiseman. And it should be said, he was much more smooth about making his way into the same small nook at the front of the training mockup of an Orion space capsule at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The Washington Post

The groundbreaking civilian spaceflight mission known as Polaris Dawn was set to conclude Sunday with the 3:36 a.m. splashdown off the coast of Florida of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts.

NPR

SCOTT DETROW, HOST: I recently found myself awkwardly crouched down, trying not to bang my head and trying to figure out how to wedge myself into a tight, low space. REID WISEMAN: Actually, kneel down… DETROW: OK. WISEMAN: .

Livescience.com

Unlike the other planets in the solar system, Mars is distinctly triaxial, meaning it is an ellipsoid with different sizes along all three axes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NHL.com

The journey, in essence, is what Tulsky has been taking his whole career. It’s not like he set out to major in chemistry or work on solar panels or DNA sequencing or car batteries or, …

Livescience.com

The first phase of China’s moon base will be completed around 2035 near the lunar south pole, and an extended model will be built by about 2050, if all goes according to plan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate …

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The spectacle will be …