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NASA Explorers: Sample Return

How does it feel to watch your life’s work parachute through the atmosphere? Relive the joy and terror of the OSIRIS-REx sample return with NASA Explorers… but retrieving the sample […]

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Axiom Mission 1 Launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) to the International Space Station with Commander Michael López-Alegría of Spain and […]

SpaceX Axiom-2 Launch Coverage

Axiom Mission 2 was the second all-private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Ax-2 is launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft—it’s the same capsule […]

NASA’s Boeing OFT-2 Launch Coverage

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, 6:54 p.m. EDT May 19, […]

Zarya Module Launch

The Zarya Module, also known by the technical term Functional Cargo Block and the Russian acronym FGB, was the first component launched for the International Space Station. The U.S.-funded and […]

STS-97 Mission Highlights

On their 11-day mission, the astronauts completed three spacewalks, or EVAs, to deliver and connect the first set of U.S.-provided solar arrays to the International Space Station, prepare a docking […]

STS-134 The Final Countdown

Headed for the International Space Station, the agency’s youngest shuttle made its final flight delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and critical supplies, including two communications antennas, a high-pressure gas […]

STS-122 Mission Highlights

STS-122 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-122 marked the 24th shuttle mission to the ISS, and the 121st […]