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NASA's stuck astronauts hit 6 months in space. Just 2 more to go

Dec. 05, 2024 17:39 PM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go. The pair rocketed into orbit on June 5, the first to ride Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule on what was...

NASA pushes back astronaut flights to the moon again

Dec. 05, 2024 17:11 PM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said the next mission in the Artemis program -- flying four astronauts around the moon and back – is now targeted for...

NASA announces more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo

Dec. 05, 2024 13:28 PM EST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA announces more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

NASA's stuck astronauts mark six months in space with two months to go before returning to Earth

Dec. 05, 2024 10:16 AM EST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's stuck astronauts mark six months in space with two months to go before returning to Earth.

Peter Navarro served prison time related to Jan. 6. Now Trump is bringing him back as an adviser

Dec. 04, 2024 20:51 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House adviser Peter Navarro, who served prison time related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, will return to serve in Donald Trump’s second administration, the president-elect announced Wednesday. Navarro, a trade adviser during Trump’s...

Billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk is Trump's pick to lead NASA

Dec. 04, 2024 14:50 PM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk's SpaceX and conducted the first private spacewalk was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to lead NASA. Jared Isaacman, 41, CEO and founder of a credit...

Elon Musk says he and Trump have 'mandate to delete' regulations. Ethics laws could limit Musk role

Nov. 13, 2024 17:31 PM EST

In picking billionaire Elon Musk to be “our cost cutter” for the U.S. government, President-elect Donald Trump won't be the first American president to empower a business tycoon to look for ways to dramatically cut federal regulations. President Ronald Reagan tapped J. Peter...

Republican David Valadao, Democrat George Whitesides win US House races in California

Nov. 12, 2024 22:16 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican Rep. David Valadao has won reelection in California’s 22nd Congressional District in the state's Central Valley farm belt, defeating Democrat Rudy Salas for the second time. Valadao is an anomaly — an elected Republican in a heavily Democratic...

NASA astronauts won't say which one of them got sick after almost 8 months in space

Nov. 09, 2024 04:36 AM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday which one of them was sick. Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps publicly discussed their...

NASA astronaut is released from the hospital after returning from space

Oct. 26, 2024 14:45 PM EDT

A NASA astronaut who was briefly hospitalized after returning from space has been released, the space agency said Saturday. NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin were flown to the hospital for additional medical checks Friday...