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July 23, 2025

NASA

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Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown, delivery for NASA

March 8, 2025 Marcia Dunn

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on […]

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GINGRICH: The great space breakout

December 15, 2024 Newt Gingrich

President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of Jared Isaacman to lead NASA was a wonderful moment for those of us who believe in space. I began reading about space in 1957. I was in eighth grade […]

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Boeing to launch astronauts aboard new capsule tonight

May 6, 2024 By Marcia Dunn | The Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew […]

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US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last years

January 2, 2024 Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane blasted off last Thursday on another secretive mission that’s expected to last at least a couple of years. Like previous missions, the reusable plane resembling a mini space shuttle […]

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1st moon crew in 50 years makes debut

April 4, 2023 The Associated Press

NASA named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.  The first moon crew in 50 years […]

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Contact restored with NASA spacecraft headed to lunar orbit

July 7, 2022 Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA said Wednesday that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. Contact was lost after one successful communication and […]

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NASA hopes New Zealand launch will pave way for moon landing

June 28, 2022 Nick Perry, Associated Press

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it […]

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SpaceX, NASA looking into sluggish chutes on last 2 flights

February 10, 2022 Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX and NASA are investigating a parachute issue that occurred on the last two capsule flights. One of the four main parachutes was slow to inflate during the return of four […]

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Space telescope’s ‘golden eye’ opens, last major hurdle

January 11, 2022 Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror Saturday, the final step in the observatory’s dramatic unfurling. The last portion of the 21-foot mirror swung into place at flight […]

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NASA: Space station remains at risk from weapons-test debris

November 23, 2021 Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The International Space Station remains at increased risk from orbiting debris following this week’s Russian weapons test, NASA said Thursday. On Monday, Russia launched a missile to destroy a satellite orbiting […]

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