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The Orion spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars made a near-bullseye splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, says NASA chief Bill Nelson in a press conference from Washington. SOUNDBITE
NASA Chief Charles Bolden says the launch of Orion, a U.S. spaceship designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth's orbit, is a 'big deal.' Jennifer Davis reports.
NASA Chief Charles Bolden says the launch of Orion, a U.S. spaceship designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth's orbit, is a 'big deal.' Jennifer Davis reports.
NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, marking the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). IMAGES
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