Artemis astronaut Jeremy Hansen described the crew’s recent return to Earth as “the best roller coaster ride you’ve ever been on.” “For the landing, it’s like all the sights, all the feels,” Hansen said Friday at a “CBS Mornings” town hall, “Artemis II: A Celebration of Heroes.” “The first thing you see is like plasma,…
Hillary Clinton on Thursday remembered activist Gloria Steinem as “one of the architects of the entire structure of women’s equality,” while encouraging young women to lift up others in the continued fight for the causes Steinem championed. “I’m hoping that young women realize that the fight is worth it. It is exhilarating,” said the former…
President Trump plans to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission, CBS News has learned. A White House official confirmed the award will be presented Friday, Aug. 28, at Joint Reserve Base Ellington in Houston. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian…
A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year was expected to have smashed into the moon at high speed early on Wednesday morning, though the impact was unlikely to be confirmed for at least several hours. The school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a…
Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said on Sunday that the Trump administration is “flailing” in its war with Iran, while urging the president to use a different tack to find a way out five months after the conflict began. “They’re stuck, they’re responsible for this, and the president is the one that…
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut closed out a 241-day stay aboard the International Space Station early Sunday with a fiery plunge back to Earth and an on-target touchdown on the broad steppe of Kazakhstan. Strapped into the Soyuz MS-28/74S ferry ship, commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, flight engineer Sergey Mikaev and NASA’s Chris Williams undocked…
Two NASA astronauts floating outside the International Space Station carried out a bit of orbital surgery Tuesday, successfully replacing a broken 200-pound “wrist” joint near the end of the lab’s 58-foot-long robot arm. “That is a good install, you guys. I know that was tough. Wonderful work,” Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons called up from mission…
