This was NASA’s fourth crack at the all-important dress rehearsal, the last major milestone before the moon rocket’s long-awaited launch debut.
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Boeing crew capsule launches to space station on test redo
Boeing’s crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the International Space Station.
Fuel leak thwarts NASA’s dress rehearsal for moon rocket
NASA’s latest attempt to fuel its huge moon rocket for a countdown test has been thwarted by a hazardous hydrogen leak.
Twinkle, twinkle: Astronomers discover farthest star yet
It’s a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
U.S. astronaut ends record-long spaceflight in Russian capsule
Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan alongside the Russian Space Agency’s Pyotr Dubrov, who also spent the past year in space, and Anton Shkaplerov.
Space telescope’s image of star gets photobombed by galaxies
NASA’s new space telescope is showing perfect vision, with a spiky image of a faraway star that was photobombed by thousands of ancient galaxies.
NASA’s new space telescope sees 1st starlight, takes selfie
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror.
NASA’s new space telescope reaches its final stop – a million miles out
The telescope will enable astronomers to peer back further in time than ever before, all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago.
NASA nails trickiest job on newly launched James Webb space telescope
NASA has aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court.
Readfield-area students send Maine algae into space through USM, NASA partnership
A weather balloon carrying 7 cubesats, created by teams of Maine students, reaches an altitude of 103,199 feet.