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VideoVideo: Flight director updates status of comet lander
Rosetta flight director Andrea Accomazzo says the Philae lander is ready for a daring descent and touchdown Wednesday on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The European craft is making the world's first attempt to land on a comet.
VideoRosetta mission’s ‘ambition’ spotlighted in film
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission stars with Game of Thrones actor Aidan Gillan and actress Aisling Franciosi in a short film released recently to promote the spacecraft's exploration of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
VideoVideo: Reid’s “awesome” ride in Soyuz
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman speaks soon after his return to Earth after 165 days living aboard the International Space Station, describing his landing inside the Russian Soyuz capsule.
VideoSoyuz lands in Kazakhstan with station crew
A veteran cosmonaut, a German volcanologist and a Navy test pilot-turned-astronaut undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth, descending through low clouds to a jarring touchdown on the frigid steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a 165-day stay in orbit.
VideoVideo: Orion EFT 1 animation
Mike Sarafin, NASA's lead Orion flight director, narrates animation depicting the Exploration Flight Test 1 from liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
VideoVideo: Preview of Orion’s recovery
Jeremy Graeber, Orion recovery director, details how the NASA-Navy team will handle the Exploration Flight Test No. 1 after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
VideoJapanese satellites launched on Soviet-era missile
A decommissioned Soviet-era ballistic missile -- adapted for space launches instead of nuclear war -- rocketed out of an underground silo and sent five Japanese Earth observing satellites into orbit.
VideoSoil moisture mapper fueled for January launch
NASA's innovative soil moisture mapper, a new environmental satellite launching in January, has been fueled up for blastoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
VideoNTSB provides timeline of SpaceShipTwo mishap
Just 13 seconds after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo began a rocket-powered test flight -- and just five seconds after its innovative aero-braking system was inadvertently deployed at supersonic speeds -- the spaceplane apparently broke up, killing one pilot and injuring another, according to a National Transportation Safety Board timeline.