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Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m., Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, after departing the space station at 2:03 a.m., aboard the […]

Dr Nicola Fox says she was one of four women on her science course at university in the 1991.

SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight.

The megarocket pulls off a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean an hour after launch.

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.

"Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so."
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