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VideoLive coverage: SLS core stage engines shut down early during critical hotfire test
A critical test-firing of the Space Launch System's core stage engines cut off about a minute into a planned eight-minute burn Saturday on a test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The rocket's four engines ignited at 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT) for a test that was to pave the way for the core stage's shipment to the Kennedy Space Center for launch preparations.
VideoNASA sets mid-January target for SLS hot fire test
NASA is moving forward with a crucial test-firing of the core stage of the first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket as soon as Jan. 17 after engineers were satisfied with the results of a fueling test last month.
VideoLive coverage: Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return capsule lands in Australia
Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission returned to Earth Saturday after a six-year mission to collect samples from asteroid Ryugu. The mission's sample return capsule landed in in the Australian outback around shortly before 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) Saturday.
VideoJapanese asteroid sampling mission on course for return to Earth
Six years after departing Earth, Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft released a spinning capsule Saturday containing pristine asteroid material for a scorching re-entry and landing in the remote Australian outback, where teams are standing by to retrieve the specimens for analysis.
VideoVideo replay of Chang’e 5’s landing on the moon
The China National Space Administration released an accelerated video replay of the Chang'e 5 spacecraft's landing in the Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon Tuesday.
VideoLive coverage: Chinese sample return spacecraft completes docking in lunar orbit
After launching Nov. 23 and arriving in lunar orbit over the weekend, China's Chang'e 5 sample return mission landed on the moon Tuesday, targeting a volcanic region in the Oceanus Procellarum region. On Thursday, the craft's ascender vehicle took off to begin the trip back to Earth, followed by a successful docking with the mission's return vehicle in lunar orbit Saturday.
VideoChina set to attempt first lunar sample return mission in four decades
Chinese scientists and engineers are counting down to launch of a heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket Monday with the Chang'e 5 mission, an ambitious attempt to land on the moon, drill samples from beneath the lunar surface, and return the material to Earth.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches oceanography satellite from California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:17 p.m. EST (9:17 a.m. PST; 1717 GMT) Saturday with an oceanography satellite jointly developed by U.S. and European space and weather agencies. The rocket's first stage booster returned to a bullseye landing back at Vandenberg.
VideoInternational Space Station offers ‘blueprint’ for exploration, first crew says
Bill Shepherd, a former Navy SEAL-turned astronaut who arrived at the International Space Station 20 years ago Monday to begin the continuous occupancy of the orbiting research outpost, says the experience gained by NASA and its global partners over the last two decades provides a blueprint for missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
VideoOSIRIS-REx overflows with asteroid samples after bagging bounty from Bennu
The sampling mechanism on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is stuffed with specimens captured from asteroid Bennu earlier this week -- so full that some of the rocks are floating out into space. Officials said Friday they will stow the samples inside the mission's Earth return capsule sooner than planned to minimize the loss of asteroid material.