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The Pasco County Fire Rescue Special Operations Captain Epperson is reportedly adopting the kitten for his son’s birthday this weekend.

Watch NASA test-fire the worlds most powerful rocket stage - a critical step towards the next moon mission mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen) © Provided by Business Insider The core stage of NASAs Space Launch System fires its engines for a hot fire test on January 16, 2021, at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA/Robert Markowitz If the hot fire succeeds, the Space Launch System rocket could be ready to launch in November. Watch the test fire live on...

NASA veteran astronaut Mark Vande Hei will be joining two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for the upcoming ISS mission, set for an April 9 launch.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentines Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gu...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 2/5/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The European Space Agencys Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this chilly photo of New York City on Feb. 4, 2021 showing the city blanketed in snow. This recent snow storm was classified as "major" and affected a majority of the Northeast United States, with New York declaring a state of emergency for both the immense snowfall and blistering winds. Copernicus Sentinel-2 is an Ear...

In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.

Space photos: The most amazing images this week! Space 1/23/2021 © Provided by Space null An Earth-observing satellite captures a gorgeous shot of the Sahara Desert, a comet photobombed the December 2020 total solar eclipse and NASA is less than one week away from landing its latest rover (and first helicopter) to the Martian surface. These are some of the top photos this week from Space.com.  Active galaxy ESO 253-3 This galaxy, known as ESO 253-3, displays the most predictable and frequ...

NGC 613, a barred spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor, shows its stunning stellar markings in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. An exhaust plume erupts from the B-2 test stand during a test-firing of the Space Launch System core stage Jan. 16. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA officials said Tuesday the weekend test-firing of the Space Launch System moon rocket’s core stage was cut shor...

A critical test of NASAs moon rocket ended abruptly on Saturday, possibly dashing hopes of launching in 2021 mmcfalljohnsen@businessinsider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen) © NASA TV An SLS engine burns propellant (left), then abruptly shuts down (right) during a hot fire test on January 16, 2021. NASA TV The test automatically ended due to an issue with an engines hydraulic system, NASA said Tuesday. The rocket was scheduled to launch in November 2021 and kick off the agencys Art...