2025 • Aug 10
Tom Hanks pays tribute to Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell
Actor who portrayed commander in 1995 Oscar-winning film says Lovell dared to go to places most wouldn’t goLate Apollo 13
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2025 • Aug 10
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why
Nuclear power could be the linchpin for long-term human activity. ...
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2025 • Aug 09
SpaceX astronauts splashdown safely off Southern California coast
After more than four months aboard the International Space Station, four astronauts safely returned to Earth Saturday morning with a splashdown off the coast of San Diego, wrapping up NASA and SpaceX'...
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2025 • Aug 09
James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died
Lovell was the first person to fly to the Moon twice. ...
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2025 • Aug 08
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 moon mission leader, dies at 97
James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97....
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2025 • Aug 08
Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle
Generating "...public resistance to the provision's enforcement." ...
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2025 • Aug 08
Rocket Report: Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars
"Get on board! We are going to Mars!" ...
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2025 • Aug 06
NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations
"Certain players are going to have to do a harder pivot." ...
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2025 • Aug 06
Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one
"The acting administrator has made an identification." ...
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2025 • Aug 05
Duffy confirms fast-track plan to build nuclear reactor on the moon
Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlined the space agency's fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday. “We're in a race to the moon, in a rac...
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2025 • Aug 04
Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?
"We will be ready for them when they're ready to fly." ...
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2025 • Aug 02
With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back
"We are looking at the potential to extend this current flight, Crew-11." ...
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