Astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada work to unbolt a roll-out solar array from a stowage position outside the International Space Station.
The South Atlantic Ocean, Namibia, and South Africa pass more than 250 miles (450 km) below in this time lapse.
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Here’s a closer view of the Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return carrier streaking through the atmosphere over the Australian outback, beginning its re-entry to slow down from a speed of some 26,000 mph (11.6 km per second).
Continuing coverage: spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/05/hay…
SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 first stage has landed back at Cape Canaveral, marking the 70th successful recovery of a Falcon booster since the first landing five years ago Monday. spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/17/fal…
This spectacular series of photos shows the Crew Dragon abort and the expected explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket during today’s launch escape test over Florida’s Space Coast (📷: Katie Darby). spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/17/fal…
Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster has landed back in West Texas, completing its seventh round-trip flight to space. spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/13/blu…
“Go Webb!”
The James Webb Space Telescope is flying free of its Ariane 5 launcher after a “perfect flight” into space, NASA says.
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More than 10 minutes after touchdown two antennae at NASA's Deep Space Network tracking station at Canberra, Australia, are receiving steady stream of telemetry from the lander.
Three Chinese astronauts landed in the remote Gobi Desert of China Friday, returning to Earth after a three-month mission on the new Tiangong space station, and ending a historic day in spaceflight that set a new record with 14 people in low Earth orbit. spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/17/chi…
Orion separation confirmed. The human-rated crew capsule is on the way to the moon after a seemingly picture-perfect launch on the maiden flight of NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket. spaceflightnow.com/2022/11/15/art…
