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1st private space crew paying $55M each to fly to station

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Ex-NASA Administrator Bridenstine hired by Oklahoma firm

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In this Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021 photo made available by NASA, the core stage for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket undergoes a hot fire test at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. All four core-stage engines fired for barely a minute, rather than the intended eight minutes. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, NASA blamed the automatic shutdown on the strict test limits. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

Halted rocket test could stall NASA moon shot, redo possible

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. file photo, smoke from California wildfires up to 200 miles away obscures the view of traffic traveling on Interstate 80, looking west in Sparks, Nev. Local schools canceled all outdoor activities as the air quality index approached the &quot;very unhealthy&quot; category for the general population Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. The scene was assembled from 11 photos taken using its robotic arm. On Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, NASA declared the craft dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. (NASA via AP)

RIP: Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planet

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

NASA to test engine for ‘most powerful rocket in the world’

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FILE - In this May 30, 2020, file photo, a SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts blasted towards orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

World’s space achievements a bright spot in stressful 2020

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a U.S.-European satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was expected to deploy its solar panels and later make first contact with controllers. (David Middlecamp/The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo) via AP)

European-US sea level tracking satellite sends 1st readings

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Feds: Fraudster duped investors with false claims about NASA

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Double Dragons: SpaceX launches space station supplies

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Virgin Galactic gets NASA contract, prepares for test flight

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Crew -1 NASA astronauts from left to right pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Shannon Walker, Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut and mission specialist Soichi Noguchi and flight engineer Kate Rubins hold a news conference from aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (NASA via AP)

Astronaut: SpaceX Dragon beats shuttle, Soyuz for launching

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Soichi Noguchi

Astronauts on first commercial flight arrive at International Space Station

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

The countdown clock is stopped at a three-hour built in hold as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company's Crew Dragon capsule attached, sits on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Four astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for launch on later today. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

SpaceX launches 2nd crew, regular station crew flights begin

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This undated photo made available by SpaceX in September 2020 shows, from left, NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, commander Mike Hopkins and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. The four are scheduled to be SpaceXs second crew launch in mid-November 2020. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX launches four astronauts to International Space Station

By Marica Dunn - Associated Press

A mockup of the SpaceX crew capsule is seen on display in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building during a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX crew flight delayed; Musk gets mixed COVID-19 results

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows the planet Mars. This composite photo was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s. NASA is underestimating the amount of time and money it will take to bring Mars rocks back to Earth in the coming decade, an independent panel said Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (NASA via AP)

Report: NASA needs more time, money to bring back Mars rocks

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Ryan Vickers stands for a photo to display his new service tapes after taking his oath of office to transfer from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Space Force, the first new U.S. military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947, now has some 20 members stationed at Qatar's Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. Space Force finally gets an astronaut

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this undated image provided by NASA, a sample container hovers over a capsule on the Osiris-Rex spacecraft near the asteroid Bennu. The capsule will eventually return to Earth with rubble collected in the container on Oct. 20, 2020, from the asteroid’s surface. (NASA via AP)

NASA confirms spacecraft collected and stored enough of its first-ever asteroid rubble

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times