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'It sounds like an animal': NASA astronauts describe the Crew Dragon re-entry experience

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft practically came alive during its dramatic dive through Earth's atmosphere on Sunday (Aug. 2), its NASA crew reported. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley said they felt shimmies, tremors and rolls as the ...

'Space dad' jokes: NASA astronauts made prank calls after historic SpaceX splashdown

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returned from orbit with their senses of humor intact. The duo splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, Sunday (Aug. 2), wrapping up SpaceX's historic Demo-2 mission to the International ...

SpaceX clears big hurdle on next-gen Starship rocket program

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Spaceflight Now

A prototype rocket for a massive reusable vehicle SpaceX is designing to fly people to the moon and Mars took off from a launching stand in South Texas on Tuesday, flew to a height of roughly 500 feet, then made a controlled descent to a nearby landing pad.

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

In this frame grab from NASA TV, the SpaceX capsule is lifted onto a ship, 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 ...

The best place to see stars from Earth also happens to be the coldest place on the planet

If you want the clearest view of the night sky, you'll have to pack a warm jacket. Dome A, or Dome Argus, an ice dome perched high on the Antarctic Plateau, could be the ideal place to get a clear view of the stars from Earth, according to a new study ...

Lasers in daylight can better detect space debris orbiting Earth, new study suggests

(CNN) In director Alfonso Cuaron's 2013 space thriller "Gravity," Sandra Bullock's astronaut character dons a suit for a spacewalk in orbit around Earth, upgrading hardware on the Hubble Space Telescope. With just a few minutes' warning, a field of space ...

Elon Musk's spacecraft roared like "an animal." But astronauts say the SpaceX Dragon flew flawlessly.

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Washington Post

Dragon roared on the way down. As it plunged into the atmosphere Sunday on its way back to Earth from the International Space Station, the spacecraft "really came alive," NASA astronaut Bob Behnken said. "It doesn't sound like a machine; it sounds like an ...

Surprisingly dense exoplanet challenges planet formation theories

New detailed observations with NSF's NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the Hyades cluster, that is unusually dense for its size and age. Slightly smaller than Neptune, K2-25b orbits an M-dwarf star -- the most common type ...

CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

At the 40th ICHEP conference, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muon is a heavier copy of the electron, one of the elementary particles that constitute the matter content of ...

Explorer's mission to photograph a century of climate change in Patagonia

Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Cristian Donoso is a Rolex Associate Laureate. (CNN) Chilean explorer and photographer, Cristian Donoso, has spent over two decades traversing the wilds of Patagonia, Antarctica and the Arctic to ...