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The long path home for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) - NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are about to return to Earth from the International Space Station, where they have been living for nine months in a drawn-o...
Mar 18, 2025
NASA astronauts head home on SpaceX capsule after drawn-out space station stay
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip ba...
Mar 18, 2025
"Butch and Suni" astronauts prepare for Tuesday homecoming after nine-month mission
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, are scheduled to begin their return...
Mar 17, 2025
Science Group renews push for board shakeup at Ricardo
(Reuters) - Science Group on Monday reiterated the need for board changes at British consulting firm Ricardo after its call to replace the chair and two other directors was rejected last week. The UK-...
Mar 17, 2025
Astronaut crew docks with space station to replace 'Butch and Suni'
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station early on Sunday in a NASA crew-swap mission that will allow a pair of stuck astron...
Mar 16, 2025
Starship, carrying Tesla's bot, set for Mars by end-2026: Elon Musk
(Reuters) - SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla humanoid bot Optimus. Musk suggested in a post on X that human landi...
Mar 15, 2025
NASA gets extra week to submit mass layoff plan given busy mission workload
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA on Friday said it received a one-week deadline extension to submit its plans for mass layoffs to the top U.S. personnel agency, given the number of high-pri...
Mar 14, 2025
NASA, SpaceX try again to launch rocket set to bring back stuck astronauts
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA and SpaceX on Friday will count down to a long-awaited crewed rocket launch that will allow them to bring home U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Willi...
Mar 14, 2025
NASA, SpaceX proceeds with Crew-10 launch for Friday
(Reuters) - NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with plans to launch the space agency's Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, March 14 at 7:03 p.m. EDT (2303 GMT), the U.S. agency s...
Mar 13, 2025
Four small rocky planets confirmed orbiting nearby Barnard's star
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of th...
Mar 13, 2025
