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Here’s what a Beatles song and a fossil have to do with a NASA mission to study asteroids
Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...
Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says
A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has ...
Astronaut Pettit, 2 cosmonauts undock from the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner successfully departed the International ...
NASA's Don Pettit, two cosmonaut crewmates, wrap up seven-month space station visit
Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, is celebrating his 70th birthday while landing in Kazakhstan after 220 days in space.
NASA's oldest astronaut returning to Earth after ISS mission
NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian ...
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NASA's Lucy probe will fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday
The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...
Watch Live: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Returns to Earth on His 70th Birthday After 220 Days in Space
A space homecoming is coming soon as NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts wrap up a 220-day orbital mission ...