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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with station crew
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NASA and SpaceX launch a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station
Mission Reports
Japanese probe lands on asteroid to capture sample
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft briefly landed on an asteroid Thursday more than 200 million miles from Earth and fired a bullet to scoop up a rocky sample, successfully accomplishing one of the mission’s most challenging maneuvers before returning the asteroid specimen to scientists on the ground in December 2020.