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Text size Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy the social- media platform Twitter on Thursday, sending shares of the car maker lower. Investors might be worried about distraction for Musk as Tesla (ticker: TSLA) ramps up production at new plants, but there are other …

SpaceX has had a variety of struggles and successes since its inception 20 years ago, but one of its most resounding victories has been the successful development and flights of its manned space capsule, the Crew Dragon. The Crew Dragon capsule line has already completed four successful manned missions and is currently in orbit on …

Update 2:25 p.m. ET: Belly flop success! The cables suspending the Orion capsule above the water disconnected, and the researchers got a great look at how the spacecraft would fall in a real-world setting. Future tests will include a drop from a greater height and a “swing test,” in which the module is launched like …

A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported. Chang’e 5, the third Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon and the first to take off from it again, is the latest in a series of …

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported. Chang’e 5, the third Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon and the first to take off from it again, is the latest …

The mission team received images sent by the spacecraft last Thursday that revealed the sample collection head was full of surface material — so much so that a flap was wedged open by rocks, allowing particles to escape into space. The team canceled scheduled maneuvers for the spacecraft that would have been used to estimate …

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Image copyright NASA / Andy Saunders Image caption Apollo 13’s commander Jim Lovell selects music on a portable tape player while Jack Swigert naps off to the right Image enhancement techniques have been used to reveal life aboard Nasa’s stricken Apollo 13 spacecraft in unprecedented detail. Fifty years ago, the craft suffered an explosion that …

Draper is developing technology to equip the next generation of spacecraft with high precision navigation and landing capabilities. Credit: Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colo. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 1, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The next missions to space will require new technologies that are just now being developed and tested. One of the goals is to make …

Image copyright NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI/Roman Tkachenko Image caption The Kuiper belt object Arrokoth is a pristine remnant of planet formation in action Scientists say they have “decisively” overturned the prevailing theory of how planets in our Solar System formed. The established view is that material violently crashed together to form ever larger clumps until they became worlds. …