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The Danuri mission recently entered lunar orbit where it will spend the next year scanning the surface of the Moon.

South Korea’s first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon’s surface and Earth, the national space centre said....

Completed a series of history making events. >> reporter: a key objective is to test the heat shield. it is moving 24,000 miles an hour, 7 miles a second. the heatshield will get 5000 °. they are trying to skip reentry. the capsule will enter thes for, bounce back up, to reduce the heat and the g forces on the astronauts on reentry. 11 parachutes are going to slow this thing down to 20 miles an hour before it hits the water. recovery vessels, several navy ships, are there to bring in the orbite...

Its important to catch the got a ways the tens of thousands of people slipping past her border patrol agents everything will month and the reason is able to happen so easily so many of our agents are pulled off the front lines these days dealing with the huge endless relentless amounts of groups across the border causing border patrol to have to do processing and paperwork and set a patrol, will send it back to you. eric: bill in la joya. thank you. alicia: nasa is celebrating a major milestone ...

India’s Mars orbiter craft Mangalyaan after being in the Martian Orbit for Eight years bids goodbye.

Truly flew "columbia" into space again. >> space shuttle was like a large truck that could deploy satellites, and it had a robotic arm so that you can repair and upgrade spacecraft. >> and liftoff of the orbiter "challenger" and the sixth flight of the space shuttle. >> this was the birth of space travel, not just space missions. were talking about setting a laboratory. almost like a university in space. and it started feeling like anybody could be an astronaut. >> the countdown is under way ton...

Them. there will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews, and yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. nothing ends here. our hopes and our journeys continue. >> to honor our fallen, we have to find this and fix it and fly it again. >> within a matter of days we knew it was a solid rocket booster joint that had failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that had led to the loss of the "challenger." >> during the 30 months since the "challenger" accident, there have been h...

South korea has launched its first lunar orbiter. nicknamed "danuri", which means "enjoy the moon," the orbiter will enter the moons orbit in december, before embarking on a year—long observation mission. and that is it from me. hello. well, lets see what the weathers got in store for us this weekend. and as you might expect, a lot of warm sunshine, but a bit of rain in the forecast, too. not where we really need it, though — in fact, if we have a look at the rainfall accumulation over the n...

It belongs to the brave. the "challenger" crew was pulling us into the future and well continue to follow them. there will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. nothing ends here. our hopes and our journeys continue. >> to honor our fallen, we have to find this and fix it and fly it again. >> within a matter of days, we knew it was the solid rocket booster joint that had failed. the o-ring was a flawed design that had led...

And first time an all private crew will go to the iss. expected to dock with the orbiter on saturday and spend eight days working on experiments alongside american and european astronauts. and russian. planning to build its own space station. tiger woods served notice. hes back to play following the harrowing car crash last year that almost cost him his leg and career. walking with a slight limp he shot a one under par in the first round of the masters tournament. and almost got a hole in one....