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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.

European satellites launched to create artificial solar eclipses in a tech demo

Dec. 05, 2024 08:15 AM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space. Each fake eclipse should last six hours once operations begin next year. That's considerably...

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...

SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket, but aborts attempt to catch booster with mechanical arms

Nov. 20, 2024 15:33 PM EST

SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas...

Trump appears to be planning to attend SpaceX 'Starship' launch scheduled for Tuesday in Texas

Nov. 18, 2024 15:21 PM EST

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship” rocket launch on Tuesday, in the latest indication of founder Elon Musk 's influence in the Republican's orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued...

New Pentagon report on UFOs includes hundreds of new incidents but no evidence of aliens

Nov. 14, 2024 16:08 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and...