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Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, will be riding in a SpaceX Dragon capsule, attached to the top of a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA said there is “a greater-than-95% ...

Assuming a successful touchdown, the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission will begin two weeks of science using 10 NASA-provided instruments carried ... and a stereo camera to capture the impact of the ...

Last time I checked, Davy Crockett . . .” He trails off, but you get the bumper sticker ... NASA can’t do s— right now, and Elon is going out and getting out astronauts and landing a rocket.

Sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, lit up the night sky for miles ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

NASA wants to commission a Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve soil and air samples collected by the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Multiple space companies are bidding on the work. Rocket Lab has ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over the weekend. The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed ...

In theory, NASA wants to send a rocket to Mars, drop a lander down to the surface, collect Perseverance's mailbag and tuck it aboard another, smaller rocket, then shoot that rocket up to orbit ...