NASA chief, citing China gains, calls for congressional support
Bill Nelson said NASA faces increasingly stiff competition on the high frontier.
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Bill Nelson said NASA faces increasingly stiff competition on the high frontier.
The fifth Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS satellite joins a globe-spanning constellation
The mishap marked Rocketlab's second in its last eight flights.
The Chinese rover joins three NASA spacecraft already on the surface of Mars.
Actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko will shoot scenes for an upcoming movie aboard the space station.
The spacecraft is returning from the asteroid Bennu, and it marks NASA's first-ever asteroid sample return mission.
The flight will be the second fully commercial launch of civilians to low-Earth orbit and the first to the International Space Station.
China is taking heat from NASA after rocket debris rains down onto the Indian Ocean. Ramy Inocencio reports from Hong Kong on China's inability to find and contain an out-of-control rocket headed toward Earth.
The world is anxiously awaiting the landing of debris from China's Long March Rocket, which is expected to hit Earth this weekend. Ramy Innocencio reports.
A section of a Chinese rocket is expected to fall to Earth in the coming days. Where it will land is anyone's guess. David Martin has the details.
The Crew Dragon's return closes out a record four-flight campaign to replace the space station's seven-member crew.
"As I've said before: In America, when we shoot for the moon, we plant our flag on it," the vice president tweeted following the announcement.
The four Crew Dragon astronauts, delayed by windy weather, head for only the third nighttime splashdown in space history.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur talked with CBS News' Bill Harwood from aboard the International Space Station about the early days of their planned six-month mission. They launched on April 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon capsule. Read more here.
A similar problem cropped up earlier during testing and another flight attempt is planned.
Officials expect the project to take a couple years, but launch of the control module is a major step for China's increasingly sophisticated space program.
NASA astronaut Michael Collins, who flew to the moon on the historic Apollo 11 mission with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, has died at the age of 90. CBS News' Peter King reports on CBSN's "Red & Blue."
Blue Origin's protest claims NASA's evaluation of moon lander proposals was "flawed."
Four space station astronauts now plan to splash down Saturday to close out an extended 166-day mission.
The timing of the launch and the rocket's trajectory closely matched the paths to orbit used by previous satellites capable of collecting extremely detailed views of ground targets.
The tiny helicopter has now flown further and faster on Mars than it ever did on Earth.
The arrival of one Crew Dragon capsule sets the stage for the departure and return to Earth of another.
SpaceX successfully launched NASA astronauts to the International Space Station using a recycled rocket booster and capsule. Mark Strassmann has more on this historic accomplishment.
The flight is SpaceX's first using a previously flown first stage and Crew Dragon capsule.
Friday's SpaceX launch marks just the third of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program shuttered a decade ago. The mission marks a major milestone for SpaceX: reusing both a booster and space capsule from earlier missions. The company has done that before with cargo, never with people, until today. Senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann reports.