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NASA engineers successfully test a powerful new rocket engine, moving one step closer to the development of the Space Launch System that could send humans to Mars. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are readying themselves for the launch of March 27, which will mark the beginning of a one-year mission on the International Space Station aiming to study the impact of long-term space travel on human bodies.
NASA images show the moment of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse over Kerrville in Texas. IMAGES
A NASA spacecraft blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center bound for Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps a new type of celestial body unknown to science. Trailing a blue glow from its next-generation electric propulsion system and flanked by two large solar arrays, the van-sized probe should arrive at its destination in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, in July 2029. IMAGES
A sample of rock and dust retrieved from the asteroid Bennu contains water and carbon molecules, both building blocks for life as we know it, NASA chief Bill Nelson says. SOUNDBITE
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