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10 hours ago · After multiple delays, the highly anticipated inaugural crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner is “go” for launch on Saturday — and the new spacecraft will be carrying a duo of veteran astronauts. Liftoff of Boeing’s Crew Flight Test mission is scheduled for 12:25 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
2 days ago · By Sue Nelson 30th May 2024. Ed Dwight could have been the only black astronaut in the 1960s – but politics got in the way. In 2024, at the age of 90, he finally got his chance to go into orbit ...
1 day ago · Inquiries. Rogers Commission Report. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC ).
1 day ago · Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA 's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
4 days ago · Doctor Who series 6. The sixth series of British science fiction television programme Doctor Who was shown in two parts. The first seven episodes were broadcast from April to June 2011, beginning with "The Impossible Astronaut" and ending with mid-series finale "A Good Man Goes to War".
3 days ago · May 29, 2024. Credit: NASA / Josh Valcarcel. > Space. It's taken more than half a century, but NASA really is going back to the moon. Some of the space agency's astronauts have been training in...
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5 days ago · Artemis I, which launched on November 16, 2022, tested the safety and performance in deep space of the uncrewed Orion, which orbited the Moon about 70,000 km (44,000 miles) from its surface on a 25.5-day flight. The return of astronauts to space as part of a NASA program may happen as early as September 2025, when Artemis II could take a crew ...
