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Jeff Bezos pins astronaut wings on William Shatner after the 'Star Trek' star's spaceflight on October 13, 2021. Blue Origin William Shatner flew to

Actor William Shatner was scheduled to visit space on a Blue Origin aircraft on Tuesday. Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company, announced the

An illustration showing the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan Asteroids near Jupiter. Southwest Research Institute Next week, NASA plans to

A photo from BepiColombo's first Mercury flyby on October 1, 2021. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO BepiColombo, a European-Japanese spacecraft,

Jeff Bezos (left) launched aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket (right) in July. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters; Blue Origin Twenty-one Blue Origin

Space food has a bad rap, but astronaut Thomas Pesquet requested French dishes from an airline caterer. Turns out, they're not bad.

science. Ingenuity was designed to soar five times over the Martian surface as a technology demonstration. With each flight, NASA engineers were pushing the 4-pound rotorcraft as far and fast as it would go, so they anticipated that it would eventually crash. But time and again, Ingenuity wasnt felled - not by the strong Martian winds, clouds of copper dust, or other challenges to its mechanics and navigation system. So by the end of April, NASA announced that it would extend the helicopters li...

MARIANNE GUENOT, BUSINESS INSIDER 12 MAY 2021  A spacecraft carrying around 56.70g of dust from the surface of an asteroid is on its way back to Earth. The spacecraft, called OSIRIS-REx, launched its thrusters for 7 minutes on Monday to leave the asteroid Bennu, NASA said in a statement on Monday.   The probe had collected 60 grams, or about 2 ounces, of carbon-rich space dust, NASA said. This is the largest sample collected since the manned Apollo missions to the Moon, the BBC reported....

OSIRIS-REx is carrying a 2 oz. sample from the surface of an asteroid called Bennu. It is the largest sample collected since the Apollo moon missions. Its due to arrive in 2023. A spacecraft carrying around 2 ounces of dust from the surface of an asteroid is on its way back to Earth. The spacecraft, called OSIRIS-REx, launched its thrusters for 7 minutes on Monday to leave the asteroid Bennu, NASA said in a statement on Monday. The probe had collected 60 grams, or about 2 ounces, of carbon-rich...

US Space Command Has an ETA For When That Uncontrolled Rocket Will Crash Down MARIANNE GUENOT, BUSINESS INSIDER 7 MAY 2021 The Pentagon has said it is tracking a chunk of a Chinese rocket that is expected to come back into the atmosphere in the coming days in an uncontrolled reentry. As of now, it does not know where the debris will land.   The core of the rocket, which China launched April 29, has been predicted to come back to Earth "around May 8", Space Command said. Its exact traject...