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September 27, 2023

NASA picks museums to display OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples (exclusive)

As NASA saw its first asteroid sample return to Earth, three museums took particular notice, knowing that they had been chosen to display small examples of the space rock material. The locations have been told to be ready for a debut as early as November.


September 27, 2023

Record-setting NASA astronaut lands with Russian crewmates after year on station

The first American to spend a full year in space and the first two Russians to do the same on the International Space Station have landed safely back on Earth. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin touched down on Russia's Soyuz MS-23.


September 25, 2023

SpaceX flight-proven rocket hardware to go on display at Smithsonian

A SpaceX rocket engine that was used in the launch of an Israeli company's first attempt at landing on the moon has now, itself, landed in the Smithsonian. Together with a grid fin, it is one of the first artifacts from SpaceX to join the national collection.


September 24, 2023

NASA's OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth with asteroid Bennu samples

The first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid has landed back on Earth. Descending under an orange and white parachute, NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down within the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.


September 22, 2023

US Postal Service drops new OSIRIS-REx stamp ahead of asteroid sample return

NASA's first asteroid sample mission has landed at post offices across the United States two days before the spacecraft's return capsule is set to land back on Earth. The U.S. Postal Service released a new stamp celebrating the OSIRIS-REx probe.


September 20, 2023

Tom Hanks returns to the moon with 'The Moonwalkers,' a new visual experience

What do you get when you combine the production house that made the Washington Monument into a Saturn V moon rocket, the reworked imagery from "Apollo Remastered" and the actor who made "Houston, we have a problem" a household phrase?


September 17, 2023

José Hernández on his 'Cape Crusader' cameo and more in 'A Million Miles Away'

José Hernández is humbled, but also loves "A Million Miles Away." The new film from director Alejandra Márquez Abella is based on the former NASA astronaut's life story. Hernández and Abella spoke about the film and how it was made with collectSPACE.


September 15, 2023

Russia's Soyuz MS-24 launches crew for up to yearlong stay on space station

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have left Earth to spend a year aboard the International Space Station, flying on Russia's Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, who will come home after six months.


September 14, 2023

The other astronauts in 'A Million Miles Away' react to the new film and its focus

They may not be the focus of "A Million Miles Away," but the STS-128 crewmates who flew with astronaut José Hernández, the movie's subject, are happy to see him celebrated on the big screen, just as they were glad to accompany him into space.


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On Sept. 25, 1973, Tim Hogan and his colleagues from the NavyÕs Underwater Demolition Team leapt from a hovering helicopter into the churning Pacific Ocean to recover the Apollo Command Module and its crew following NASAÕs Skylab 3 mission. Nearly 13 years later, Hogan and the command module were reunited when the capsule became an exhibit at NASAÕs Lewis Research Center (today, NASA Glenn) in Cleveland.

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