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In this Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, image released by SpaceX/NASA, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts, from left, mission specialist Shannon Walker, pilot Victor Glover, and Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, all NASA astronauts, and mission specialist Soichi Noguchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut, gesture during crew equipment interface testing at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX’s second astronaut flight is off until mid-November 2020 because red lacquer dripped into tiny vent holes in two rocket engines that now must be replaced. (SpaceX/NASA via AP)

Red coating contaminates SpaceX rockets, delays crew launch

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Europe to send modules, astronauts to NASA moon station

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In this image taken from video released by NASA, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (NASA via AP)

NASA spacecraft sent asteroid rubble flying in sample grab

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. After almost two years circling the ancient asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA via AP)

US spacecraft touches asteroid surface for rare rubble grab

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Aug. 11, 2020 photo shows the sampling arm of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a rehearsal for an approach to the "Nightingale" sample site on the surface of the asteroid Bennu. After almost two years circling the ancient asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via AP)

Osiris-Rex, NASA spacecraft, takes sample of rubble from asteroid 200 million miles from Earth

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

FILE -- In this Feb. 11, 2008 file picture, general manager of the Nokia factory in Romania, John Guerry, casts a shadow on a banner at the new Nokia factory in Jucu, central Romania, during the official opening of the first production line. Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the Moon. The Finnish technology giant said Monday, Oct. 19, 2020 its Nokia Bell Labs' division will build a 4G communications system to be deployed on a lunar lander to the Moon's surface in late 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Nokia to build moon’s first 4G cell network for NASA program

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In this image made from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with the Soyuz MS-17 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS), blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. A trio of space travelers has launched successfully to the International Spce Station, for the first time using a fast-track maneuver to reach the orbiting outpost in just three hours. NASA's Kate Rubins and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled at 10:45 a.m. (1:45 a.m. EDT, 5:45 a.m. GMT) Wednesday from the Russia-leased Baikonur space launch facility in Kazakhstan for a six-month stint on the station. (Roscosmos Space Agency via AP)

Russian-US crew launches on fast track to the space station

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

NASA’s new moonshot rules: No fighting or littering, please

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This Aug. 13, 1965 photo provided by the San Diego Air and Space Museum shows an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket carried by a truck at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. (Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection/San Diego Air and Space Museum via AP)

Mystery ‘asteroid’ may be Centaur rocket from failed moon landing

By Marica Dunn - Associated Press

This Sept. 20, 1966 photo provided by the San Diego Air and Space Museum shows an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA's leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. (Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection/San Diego Air and Space Museum via AP)

Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This image released by National Geographic shows Patrick J. Adams, center, in a scene from &quot;The Right Stuff.&quot; (Gene Page/National Geographic/Disney Plus via AP)

‘The Right Stuff’ looks back and up with first US astronauts

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

In this Nov. 29, 2018 photo made available by NASA, Commercial Crew Program &amp; Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Chris Ferguson participate in a flight control simulation for a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, Ferguson removed himself from the first Starliner crew, citing his daughter’s wedding in 2021. He has been replaced on the crew by Wilmore. (James Blair/NASA via AP)

Astronaut chooses daughter’s wedding over space test flight

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this June 18, 2020 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Kate Rubins, center, and support personnel review the Universal Waste Management System, a low-gravity space toilet, in Houston. The new device is scheduled to be delivered to the International Space Station on Oct. 1, 2020. (Norah Moran/NASA via AP)

Potty training: NASA tests new $23M titanium space toilet

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Ex-electrician wants NASA to make ‘little people’ honorees

By BAILEY LEFEVER and The Tampa Bay Times - Associated Press

This image released by Netflix shows Challenger 7 on the launchpad in a scene from &quot;Challenger: The Final Flight.&quot; The four-part series about the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster premieres Wednesday. (NASA/Netflix via AP)

Netflix delves into the ‘human side’ of Challenger disaster

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

Española native working to put New Mexico chile in space

By OLIVIA HARLOW - Associated Press

Judge OKs evidence in deadly crash involving ex-astronaut

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n this Friday, June 17, 2011, file photo, space shuttle Atlantis is mounted on Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) ** FILE **

NASA-funded scientist charged with also working for China

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, performs a spacewalk a few meters away from the cabin of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger, using a nitrogen-propelled Manned Maneuvering Unit, Feb. 7, 1984. (NASA via AP) ** FILE **

NASA to fight ‘systemic discrimination,’ reject unofficial nicknames like ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this frame grab from NASA TV video, astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley wave during a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. The two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown carried out by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. (NASA TV via AP)

Astronauts: SpaceX Dragon capsule ‘came alive’ on descent

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press