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No one on the crew has ever traveled to space. “My own journey has been shaped by lifelong curiosity and the fascination with pushing boundaries,” Chun said Friday during an audio-only Spaces ...
When the pair finally returned home in March, the astronauts had completed 286 consecutive days in space. But while that unexpectedly long duration sounds like a lot, it's totally normal for ...
A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years: Here’s what renewable energy sites looked like eight years ago ...
As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams get their land legs back on Earth, the effects of being stranded in space for nine months — and their recovery — will give scientists a ...
NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their planned short stay in space stretched into a more than nine-month, politically fraught mission — are ...
Prohibitive launch costs and nascent satellite-positioning technology have historically hindered this sort of celestial drone show, but last April the Russian start-up Avant Space announced it had ...
They shared the ride home with two outgoing space station crewmates, Crew-9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. Seventeen hours after undocking from the International ...
The astronauts are expected to return from their third trip to the International Space Station for a water landing off the Florida coast on Tuesday evening. And they aren't alone. Also on board ...
Two NASA astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, arrived back on Earth Tuesday after spending the last nine months in space. The pair, along with fellow astronauts Aleksandr Gorbunov and Nick ...
Remember those two NASA astronauts who got stuck on the International Space Station for nine months? They finally returned to Earth on Tuesday afternoon aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship.
So many problems cropped up on the way to the space station that NASA eventually sent Starliner back empty and transferred the test pilots to SpaceX, pushing their homecoming into February.