Chinese astronauts land in Gobi desert after six months in space
Wang Yaping, Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu were the second crew aboard Tiangong, China's newest orbital station.
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Wang Yaping, Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu were the second crew aboard Tiangong, China's newest orbital station.
Harvard researchers are 99.999% certain the object was interstellar. But their paper on the finding was being turned down, because the pair only had a private conversation with an anonymous U.S. government employee to confirm the accuracy of the data.
A third attempt to fuel NASA's SLS moon rocket in a practice countdown was derailed by technical snags.
The comet is bigger than Rhode Island and could be "as big as 85 miles across," according to NASA.
The mission commander and his three crewmates are plowing through a full slate of research and public outreach.
The test was delayed twice following a series of unrelated glitches.
The first non-government, privately-funded crew docked at space station Saturday for NASA-sanctioned research.
The Axiom-1 flight carries a crew of four private citizens, with a former NASA astronaut as mission commander.
The megamaser, named Nkalakatha, was discovered by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa.
The flight is the first in a series sanctioned by NASA to encourage private-sector development in Earth orbit.
A successful fueling test is required before NASA's new moon rocket can take off on its maiden flight.
The flight is the first of up to two NASA-sanctioned "private astronaut missions" per year to space station.
Engineers will try to complete a practice countdown and fueling test Monday for NASA's huge Artemis moon rocket.
On Earth, a high-pitched sound might travel 213 feet — but it will travel just 26 feet on Mars.
NASA is expected to set a launch date after evaluating the results of the countdown test.