PASADENA, Calif. — After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids.

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Picture: NASA/AFP SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft carrying Crew-10 members as it approaches the International Space Station. Picture: NASA/AFP Sunita “Suni” Williams smiled as she snapped photos ...

The four-person Crew-10 carried by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft early on Sunday met up with the ISS, where Wilmore and Williams had been living since their planned roughly weeklong mission in June ...

Since it launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on January 15, the spacecraft traveled more than 2.8 million miles from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Mare Crisium, a volcanic plain in the ...

“There was an issue with the hydraulic system on the ground side,” NASA launch commentator Derrol Nail said, adding that “everything was fine with the rocket and the spacecraft itself.

The first person in space was the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the ...