Crew docks at space station with astronaut who'll miss birth of 3rd child
With the arrival of four fresh space station crew members, four others will head for home after 235 days in orbit.
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With the arrival of four fresh space station crew members, four others will head for home after 235 days in orbit.
A multi-national crew of four is arriving at the International Space Station for a six-month mission aboard the orbiting lab. They took off on Thursday morning and SpaceX Crew 13 is in the process of docking Thursday night. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has more about the process.
Two hundred and sixty miles above the Earth, the Dragon spacecraft is set to reach the International Space Station for a six-month stay. It has four astronauts on board, including one with another big mission back on Earth. Mark Strassmann has the story.
A multi-national crew of four is on its way to the International Space Station for a six-month mission aboard the orbiting lab. They took off on Thursday to replace the 12-astronaut crew that's been there since February. Bill Harwood has more details.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on a mission to the International Space Station from Florida's Cape Canaveral, carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian astronaut.
The Super Heavy-Starship rocket's 14th test flight, the first boosting the upper stage to orbit, marked a major milestone for both SpaceX and NASA.
NASA says it is committed to helping Boeing get its Starliner back in space after multiple upgrades and improvements.
SpaceX successfully launched its Super Heavy-Starship for its first flight to orbit. CBS News' William Harwood has more.
CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann interviews NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, the current commander of the International Space Station, as they wrap up a more than seven-month expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory. They discuss recent spacewalks, SpaceX's Starship, and what they're looking forward to about returning to Earth.
The $4.3 billion telescope is expected to discover tens of thousands of exoplanets while probing the nature of mysterious dark matter and energy.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched shortly after daybreak from Kennedy Space Center and blazed toward an observation point 1 million miles away.
NASA's next-generation telescope blasted off atop a SpaceX rocket at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday. The $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope is on a journey to peer at distant stars and galaxies. Mark Strassmann has more about what some call "the discovery machine."
Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe, taking wide-angle, ultra-sharp images that would require a half million 4K TVs to show in full.
"Space is the hot thing," President Trump said at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.
President Trump spoke with the crew of the International Space Station Friday while visiting NASA Mission Control in Houston. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe has more.
President Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of Artemis II and announced the creation of a U.S. Space Academy on Friday. CBS News' Bill Harwood and Ed O'Keefe have more.
President Trump will honor the Artemis II crew with the nation's top space medal. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe reports.
NASA's new telescope could change the way we see space. With a wide-field camera that will reveal an area up to 200 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope, and an orbit a million miles from Earth, the Nancy Grace Roman telescope is expected to find tens of thousands of unknown exoplanets.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the space race with China, the agency's plan to build a moon base at the lunar south pole, and the next Artemis mission.
China's mission was planned as the country vies with the U.S. to land astronauts on the moon and secure a near-permanent presence on its surface.
NASA is pivoting from a mission to save the Swift telescope. CBS News' Bill Harwood explains why.
President Trump plans to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission in a ceremony Aug. 28.
NASA is calling off a mission to save the Swift telescope, which is set to plunge into Earth's atmosphere and burn up later this year. CBS News' space consultant Bill Harwood chimes in.
The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year.
A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.