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This composite image made from June 7-19, 2017 photos shows the scene from NASA's Opportunity rover outside Endeavor Crater on the planet Mars. Flight controllers have been on the alert for a message from Opportunity ever since a dust storm enveloped Mars in June and contact was lost. The storm has finally diminished in August 2018. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University via AP)

NASA anxious to hear from Mars rover as dust storm clears

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This June 6, 2017 photo shows NASA astronaut candidate Robb Kulin at Ellington Field in Houston. Kulin has resigned halfway through his two years of training at Johnson Space Center in Houston. A NASA spokeswoman says his departure is effective Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, and that he is leaving for personal reasons that the space agency cannot discuss due to privacy laws. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

Astronaut quits halfway through training, 1st in 50 years

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This June 6, 2017 photo shows NASA astronaut candidate Robb Kulin at Ellington Field in Houston. Kulin has resigned halfway through his two years of training at Johnson Space Center in Houston. A NASA spokeswoman says his departure is effective Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, and that he is leaving for personal reasons that the space agency cannot discuss due to privacy laws. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

Robb Kulin, NASA astronaut-in-training, quits

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This composite image made from a series of June 15, 2018 photos shows a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in the Gale Crater. The rover's arm which held the camera was positioned out of each of the dozens of shots which make up the mosaic. A dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover's location. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA hopes Opportunity will ‘phone home’ as Mars dust storm settles

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

China protests to US over stopover by Taiwan’s president

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NASA official: No threat to Wallops facility in Virginia

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NASA Administrator James Bridenstine walks with Jody Singer, acting director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., as he tours the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NASA administrator supports Trump ‘space force’ proposal

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

The Mobile Service Tower is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Fla. A last-minute technical problem Saturday delayed NASA's unprecedented flight to the sun. Rocket maker United Launch Alliance said it would try again Sunday, provided the helium-pressure issue can be resolved quickly. Once on its way, the Parker probe will venture closer to our star than any other spacecraft. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

‘Touch the sun’: NASA spacecraft hurtles toward our star

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A Delta IV rocket, carrying the Parker Solar Probe, lifts off from launch complex 37 at the Kennedy Space Center, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Parker Solar Probe will venture closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft and is protected by a first-of-its-kind heat shield and other innovative technologies that will provide unprecedented information about the Sun. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Parker Solar Probe, NASA spacecraft, hurtles toward sun

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Arkansas architect’s team wins NASA project to build on Mars

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This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that’s capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

2017 Eclipse helped bring attention to new NASA solar probe: ‘It made everybody look to the sky’

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that’s capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe: Red-hot voyage to sun will bring us closer to our star

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this July 12, 2018 photo, Tara Clemenceau, 11, visiting from France, tries her hand at the controls of a Mercury space capsule at the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Huntsville's tourism industry is rooted in the U.S. space program and its critical, ongoing research into getting astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Rocket City, Alabama: Space history and an eye on the future

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This undated photo made available by NASA on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 shows, from left, Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover standing in front of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsules at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Friday, the space agency announced the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring human launches back to the U.S. (NASA via AP)

NASA announces crew for the first American spacecraft launches since 2011

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Astronauts, from left, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada and Sunita Williams give a thumbs up to the crowd after NASA announced them as astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, in Houston. The astronauts will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and return human launches to the U.S. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Correction: Commercial Space-Astronauts story

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Safe Space Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Preserving astronaut safety

By Richard Hagar

FILE - In a Wednesday, July 26, 2017 file photo, spectators catch a first glimpse of the Chincoteague Ponies on shore during the 92nd annual Chincoteague Pony Swim in Chincoteague, Va. NASA officials say it could take years to understand the extent of contamination at its Wallops Island site from a family of chemicals that has made its way into the drinking water for the nearby town of Chincoteague. NASA has provided supplemental water since PFAS was discovered in the water supply. (Allison Hess/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File)

Years of work ahead to study chemical pollution at NASA site

By SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

NASA, Northern Michigan team up to measure Earth’s radiation

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NASA’s Bradford Smith, tour guide for Voyager missions, dies

By BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press

This image of Ceres' limb was obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 30, 2018 from an altitude of about 280 miles. Dawn has been orbiting Ceres since 2015, after first exploring the asteroid Vesta. They’re located in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. (NASA via AP)

NASA spacecraft sending back close-ups of dwarf planet Ceres

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press