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- Astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada work to unbolt a roll-out solar array from a stowage position outside the International Space Station. The South Atlantic Ocean, Namibia, and South Africa pass more than 250 miles (450 km) below in this time lapse. spaceflightnow.com/2022/12/22/iss…
00:00 - Here’s a closer view of the Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return carrier streaking through the atmosphere over the Australian outback, beginning its re-entry to slow down from a speed of some 26,000 mph (11.6 km per second). Continuing coverage: spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/05/hay…
00:00 - Chandrayaan 3 has landed! spaceflightnow.com/2023/08/23/liv…
- SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 first stage has landed back at Cape Canaveral, marking the 70th successful recovery of a Falcon booster since the first landing five years ago Monday. spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/17/fal…
00:00 - Spectators on South Padre Island watch the Starship prototype end its test flight in a fiery crash landing. Video: Isis Valencia/Spaceflight Now.
00:00 - This spectacular series of photos shows the Crew Dragon abort and the expected explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket during today’s launch escape test over Florida’s Space Coast (📷: Katie Darby). spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/17/fal…
- Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard booster has landed back in West Texas, completing its seventh round-trip flight to space. spaceflightnow.com/2020/10/13/blu…
00:00 - Falcon 9 has landed! The first stage has arrived on the deck of SpaceX's drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. spaceflightnow.com/2020/06/13/fal…
00:00 - Falcon Heavy is going vertical for the first time at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
- “Go Webb!” The James Webb Space Telescope is flying free of its Ariane 5 launcher after a “perfect flight” into space, NASA says. spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/25/ari…
00:00 - More than 10 minutes after touchdown two antennae at NASA's Deep Space Network tracking station at Canberra, Australia, are receiving steady stream of telemetry from the lander.
- Three Chinese astronauts landed in the remote Gobi Desert of China Friday, returning to Earth after a three-month mission on the new Tiangong space station, and ending a historic day in spaceflight that set a new record with 14 people in low Earth orbit. spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/17/chi…
- Orion separation confirmed. The human-rated crew capsule is on the way to the moon after a seemingly picture-perfect launch on the maiden flight of NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket. spaceflightnow.com/2022/11/15/art…
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