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VideoSouth Korean satellite launcher set for first test flight
South Korea's new three-stage, liquid-fueled Nuri launcher is scheduled to blast off Thursday on the country's first attempt to place an object into orbit with an entirely homegrown rocket.
VideoNASA moves Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building
Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center moved the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 moon mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building Tuesday for stacking on top of the Space Launch System.
VideoLive coverage: Russian actress, film director, cosmonaut back on Earth
Closing out a nearly 12-day high-flying film shoot on the final frontier, Russian actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko returned to Earth Sunday with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy. The crew's Soyuz spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan at 12:35 a.m. EDT (0435 GMT), following an undocking from the International Space Station three hours earlier.
VideoNASA asteroid explorer leaves planet Earth on Atlas 5 rocket
Bound for a pristine population of ancient asteroids, a NASA science probe named Lucy took off from Cape Canaveral before dawn Saturday and rocketed into space on top of an Atlas 5 launcher to begin a 12-year, $981 million mission seeking out clues about the early solar system.
VideoLive coverage: NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe blasts off on Atlas 5 rocket
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, buttoned up in the nose cone of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5, took off from Cape Canaveral at 5:34 a.m. EDT (0934 GMT) Saturday. The Lucy mission will take aim on eight asteroids during a 12-year mission, a record number of flyby targets for a single spacecraft.
VideoNASA’s Lucy mission will be the first to explore a population of ancient asteroids
NASA is ready to launch a $981 million mission to the distant reaches of the solar system Saturday, kicking off a 12-year expedition to visit a group of unexplored asteroids that may offer clues to help scientists decipher how the planets formed more than 4 billion years ago.
VideoVideo: Aerial views of Atlas 5’s rollout with Lucy
The 188-foot-tall Atlas 5 rocket crowned with NASA's Lucy asteroid probe rolled out to its launch pad Thursday at Cape Canaveral. These aerial views, captured by a drone and released by NASA, show the launch vehicle moving along rail tracks to Space Launch Complex 41.
VideoLucy asteroid probe to set a new distance record for solar-powered spacecraft
About an hour after launch Saturday, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start the delicate process of opening its circular, fan-shaped solar arrays — the largest ever on a deep space probe — to power the asteroid explorer’s 12-year journey into the outer solar system.
VideoLive coverage: Chinese astronauts blast off on Long March rocket
China's first six-month human spaceflight mission launched Friday at 12:23 p.m. EDT (1623 GMT). Three Chinese astronauts rode into orbit from the Jiuquan launch base in the Gobi Desert on the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft, heading for a link-up with China's space station about six-and-a-half hours after liftoff.
VideoChina repeats call for international astronauts to join space station crews
On the eve of the next crew launch to the Chinese space station, a spokesperson for China's human spaceflight agency repeated Thursday the country's invitation for international astronauts to fly to the new orbiting space lab.