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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 [...]

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell

By |2025-08-08T14:43:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Portrait of NASA astronaut Jim LovellCredit: NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and [...]

NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions

By |2025-08-08T14:25:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Technicians at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida conduct illumination testing on Friday, July 18, 2025, by flashing a bright light that simulates the Sun into the two-panel solar array that will help power the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory on its upcoming journey to a [...]

Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star

By |2025-08-08T12:11:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Science: NASA, ESA, CXC, Yi-Chi Chang (National Tsing Hua University); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright [...]

Crew-10 Proceeds Toward Undocking No Earlier Than Friday, Aug. 8

By |2025-08-08T12:00:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain poses for a portrait inside the cupola, the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” as the orbital outpost soared 259 miles above the Atlantic Ocean west of the African island nation of Cabo Verde.NASA NASA and SpaceX are proceeding toward return of the agency’s Crew-10 mission from the [...]

Hubble Captures a Tarantula

By |2025-08-08T07:00:00-04:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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