SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts return to Earth after 199 days, NASA shares video

Four astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission have returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth by splashing down off the coast of Florida, the agency said. The astronauts and Dragon spent “199 days in orbit, the first US spacecraft to reach that milestone”, SpaceX tweeted. Earlier, their return was delayed due to bad […]

NASA advisor quits after agency keeps telescope named after homophobic administrator

A NASA advisor quit following the agency’s decision to keep naming a $10 billion space telescope after a former administrator who was the US undersecretary of state during the dismissal of gay and lesbian federal employees in the 1940s and 1950s. Lucianne Walkowicz, who identifies as nonbinary, wrote an open letter to NASA’s Astrophysics Advisory Committee on […]