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Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS from Hubble

By |2025-08-09T13:44:27-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Discovered on July 1 with the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, 3I/ATLAS is so designated as the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. It follows 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and the comet 2I/Borisov in 2019. Also known as C/2025 [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California

By |2025-08-09T13:29:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Dragon Splashdown at 11:33 a.m. EDT

By |2025-08-09T11:43:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 prepares to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. At 11:33 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov splashed down off the coast of San Diego, California. This completes [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10: SpaceX Dragon Completes Deorbit Burn

By |2025-08-09T11:00:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members (from left) Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Takuya Onishi prepare for splashdown on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos [...]

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Preparing for Splashdown

By |2025-08-09T10:17:00-04:00August 9th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission poses for a photo during a crew equipment interface test inside SpaceX’s new Dragon processing facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. SpaceX Live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more as NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, [...]

Dragon Undocks, Crew-10 Departs Station for Earth Return

By |2025-08-08T18:29:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The SpaceX Dragon carrying four Crew-10 members fires its engines after undocking from the International Space Station’s forward port to begin its descent toward Earth.NASA+ At 6:15 p.m. EDT, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov undocked from the forward-facing [...]

Crew-10 Ready to Undock from Station Live on NASA+

By |2025-08-08T17:52:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members (from left) Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and Takuya Onishi are pictured training inside a Dragon mockup crew vehicle at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.SpaceX NASA’s live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 undocking is now underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more. Learn how to [...]

NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium

By |2025-08-08T16:55:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-price indefinite-delivery requirements contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders. The awards have a total estimated value of approximately [...]

Dragon Hatch is Closed, Crew-10 Prepares for Undocking

By |2025-08-08T16:25:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members pose for a photo inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft during a training session at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 17, 2025.SpaceX At 4:20 p.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for the return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission.  The [...]

Crew-10 Members Enter Dragon for Departure Live on NASA+

By |2025-08-08T15:51:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov pose for a portrait inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that will return them back to Earth.NASA NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more ahead of hatch closure and undocking [...]

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