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SpaceX finally launches rocket mission in effort to get delayed astronauts home

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center around 7:03 p.m. local time on Friday. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will replace the previous crew, including Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Williams and Wilmore were part of the Boeing Starliner crew, which was slated to return to Earth in June, […]

March 14, 2025

Weather News

NASA launches observatories to study cosmic origins, Sun

NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) lifted off on March 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The space agency says alongside the SPHEREx mission, four small satellites from the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere mission also launched. PUNCH is slated to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere and how it contributes […]

March 12, 2025

Weather News

NASA, SpaceX encounter technical challenges in plan to get stuck astronauts back to Earth

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission was expected to launch from the Kennedy Space Center around 7:48 p.m. local time on Wednesday. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will replace the previous crew, including Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Williams and Wilmore were part of the Boeing Starliner crew, which was slated to return to […]

March 12, 2025 1

National News

NASA spent $13M on DEI under Biden while critical mission, quality controls flailed, watchdog group says

While issues at NASA compounded under Joe Biden, the space agency continued to embed diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives into its workforce, according to a new report from watchdog group OpenTheBooks.

March 12, 2025 1

Weather News

Moon readies for first cell service amid America’s latest private lunar launch

Intuitive Machines, the company that returned America to the Moon last year, launched again Wednesday evening, this time delivering the first cell service to the lunar surface and find organic resources.

February 26, 2025