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Live coverage: Space station crew back on Earth

March 11, 2015 Stephen Clark

Three crew members departed the International Space Station on Wednesday and descended back to Earth, touching down in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-14M capsule at 10:08 p.m. EDT (0208 GMT Thursday).

Powerful solid rocket motor fired in Utah

March 11, 2015 Stephen Clark

A solid-fueled rocket booster fired for more than two minutes in Utah on Wednesday, spewing a torrent of glowing hot flame against a hillside in a key test for the Space Launch System, a behemoth rocket NASA is developing to send astronauts on long-distance voyages into space.

Atlas 5 rolled to the pad for Thursday night’s liftoff

March 11, 2015 Justin Ray

Riding the rails to the launch pad Wednesday morning, the Atlas 5 rocket was rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 for liftoff Thursday night to deploy four NASA satellites that will probe Earth’s magnetosphere for a high-priority research project.

Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded seats inside a Soyuz spaceship Wednesday, undock from the International Space Station and head for a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 167-day space voyage.

Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant dwarf planet July 14.

Europa Clipper concept team aims for launch in 2022

March 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

With a commitment from the Obama administration finally in hand after more than a decade of studies and concept papers, NASA expects to give the green light this year for development of a robotic probe to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa that could launch as soon as 2022.

Live coverage: Space station crew back on Earth

Powerful solid rocket motor fired in Utah

Atlas 5 rolled to the pad for Thursday night’s liftoff

Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission

Pluto-bound probe tweaks its trajectory

Europa Clipper concept team aims for launch in 2022

Stationary rocket to be test-fired in Utah for NASA

Atlas 5 rocket cleared for rollout to launch pad

Atlas/MMS launch timeline

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission checks out