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Virgin Orbit determines cause of rocket launch failure

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AP mistakenly sends photo meant to illustrate SpaceX return

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

In this image from video made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule separates from the International Space Station on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this frame grab from NASA TV, astronaut Bob Behnken is assisted out of the SpaceX capsule, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico. Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent a little over two months on the International Space Station. It will mark the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first time a private company has ferried people from orbit. (NASA TV via AP)

Space X capsule splashes down with Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken

By Marica Dunn - Associated Press

UNLV professor Elisabeth &quot;Libby&quot; Hausrath works with Ph.D. student Anthony Feldman in her lab on campus in Las Vegas Friday, July 24, 2020. Hausrath is one of 10 scientists selected by NASA to study the soil and rock samples from Mars. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

UNLV scientist to be among first to see Mars rock samples

By MARINA PHILIP - Associated Press

This photo provided by NASA shows from left, astronauts Bob Behnken, Chris Cassidy and Doug Hurley during an interview on the International Space Station on Friday, July 31, 2020. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to leave the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule on Saturday and splashdown off the coast of Florida on Sunday. (NASA via AP)

US astronauts pack up for rare splashdown in SpaceX capsule

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A replica of the Mars rover Perseverance is displayed outside the press site before a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launch scheduled for tomorrow will transport the rover to Mars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This July 1, 2020 photo made available by NASA shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon, right, docked to the International Space station, during a spacewalk conducted by astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy. On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, SpaceX and NASA cleared the Dragon crew capsule to depart the International Space Station and head home after a two-month flight. (NASA via AP)

Tropical storm may delay 1st SpaceX crew’s return to Earth

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on the red planet's surface near the Perseverance rover, left. NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover headed to Mars. Set to rocket away this week from Florida, Perseverance is NASA's brawniest and brainiest Martian rover yet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA’s next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this 2017 photo made available by NASA, technicians lift the mirror assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane inside a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Desiree Stover/NASA via AP) ** FILE **

NASA’s Hubble successor delayed again by virus, other issues

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took this image of the sun on May 30. (Associated Press)

NASA shows closest pictures of sun ever taken

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

Rocket with classified payloads launches from Eastern Shore

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In this Wednesday, May 6, 2015, file photo, Sarah Amiri, deputy project manager of the United Arab Emirates Mars mission, talks about the project named &quot;Hope,&quot; or &quot;al-Amal&quot; in Arabic, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, during a ceremony in Dubai, UAE. Three countries — the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates — are sending unmanned spacecraft to the red planet in quick succession beginning in July 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Look out, Mars: Here we come with a fleet of spacecraft

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019 photo made available by NASA, Boeing, NASA, and U.S. Army personnel work around the Boeing Starliner spacecraft shortly after it landed in White Sands, N.M. On Tuesday, July 7, 2020, NASA officials said they have identified 80 corrective actions for safety, mostly involving software, that must be implemented before the Starliner capsule launches again. The previous count was 61. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

NASA adds more safety fixes for Boeing’s crew capsule

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This 1977 photo made available by NASA shows engineer Mary W. Jackson at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the space agency. (Robert Nye/NASA via AP)

NASA naming headquarters for ‘Hidden Figures’ engineer

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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019 file photo, Virgin Galactic ground crew guide the company's carrier plane into the hangar at Spaceport America following a test flight over the desert near Upham, New Mexico. Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. has agreed to a deal with NASA to boost commercial human spaceflight to the International Space Station and develop a “robust economy” in space. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Virgin Galactic inks NASA deal for commercial space flights

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This photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech in June 2020 shows a 3-by-5-inch (8-by-13-centimeter) aluminum plate between the wheels at center and right, which commemorates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world, attached to the Perseverance Mars rover, in Pasadena, Calif. NASA is pressing ahead with a July 20 launch, despite the pandemic. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA’s next Mars rover honors medical teams fighting virus

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

JPL pays $10 million to settle age discrimination claims

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Screen capture from NASA's official Twitter account.

Asteroid to miss hitting Earth, 2020 continues apace

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 file photo, Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, poses for a photo outside the New York Stock Exchange as fireworks are exploded before his company's IPO. In 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said space is currently a $400 billion market, including satellites. Opening up spaceflight to paying customers, he said, could expand the market to $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press