After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is studying the cosmos once again after a three-week shutdown.
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Oct 29, 2018
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One of NASA's space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown.
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Oct 15, 2018
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Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations.
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Oct 12, 2018
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British entrepreneur Richard Branson said he expects his Virgin Galactic company to conduct its first space flight "within weeks, not months" in comments broadcast Tuesday.
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Oct 9, 2018
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An engine flaw discovered during a launchpad test of Boeing's Starliner spaceship, designed to carry humans to the International Space Station, has delayed its first crew test flight until next year.
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Aug 2, 2018
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NASA's Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one-person spaceflights that offered physicians and scientists the first opportunity ...
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An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
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A record-setting Russian spacewalk ended with a critical antenna in the wrong position Friday outside the International Space Station.
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Virgin Galactic successfully conducted another unpowered test flight of its space tourism spacecraft over the Southern California desert, the company said.
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