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SpaceX's 30th Dragon cargo mission departs the ISS, heads home to Earth

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX's 30th robotic Dragon cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station today (April 28) and headed back home to Earth.

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From the left: American businessman and spaceflight participant ("space tourist") Dennis Tito with Russian cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin aboard the International Space Station on April 30, 2001.

On This Day in Space: April 28, 2001: World's 1st space tourist launches to space station

By Hanneke Weitering last updated

On April 28, 2001, the world's first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

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A diagram showing where psyche and the solar system planets were during the laser transmission.

Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away

By Monisha Ravisetti published

NASA's DSOC experiment passed yet another milestone, interfacing with the Psyche spacecraft and beaming data back to Earth from 140 million miles away.

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a pine tree sapling stands in front of an american flag and a blue nasa flag inside a white-walled room

NASA begins delivering 1st Artemis Moon Trees to be planted across United States

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The first woman slated to launch to the moon has delivered one of the first trees grown from seeds recently flown there. NASA astronaut Christina Koch presented an "Artemis 1 Moon Tree."

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two cosmonauts in white spacesuits work outside the international space station

Russian cosmonauts make quick work of space station spacewalk

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub are back inside the International Space Station after just 4.5 hours outside.

International Space Station
Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky shared this photo of the International Space Station on Twitter on Sept. 29, 2021. He and two colleagues were relocating a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another at the time.

International Space Station: Live updates

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.

International Space Station
two astronauts in white spacesuits work outside the international space station

Watch 2 cosmonauts conduct spacewalk outside the ISS today

By Mike Wall published

Two Russian cosmonauts are scheduled to spend about seven hours working outside the International Space Station today (April 25), and you can watch the action live.

International Space Station
An opaline view of a nebula in space in the shape of a puffy dumbbell.

Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Take a fresh look at the iconic Dumbbell Nebula on occasion of the Hubble Space Telescope's 34 years in space.

Hubble Space Telescope
hubble space telescope of a spiral galaxy in deep space, with a dotted line near its top indicating the trail of an asteroid in our own solar system

Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Citizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Hubble Space Telescope
starliner visible out a space window with the earth in behind

Starliner: Boeing's next-generation spaceship for astronauts

By Chelsea Gohd last updated

Reference Starliner is the commercial spacecraft Boeing will use to carry astronauts to space.

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