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Crew-11 Returns to Earth

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth at 3:41 a.m. EST on Jan. 15.

Mission Updates

Return to the Moon

NASA’s integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission are inching closer to launch. The agency is targeting no earlier than 7 a.m. EST, Saturday, Jan. 17, to begin the multi-hour trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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When oyster farmer Luke Saindon went looking for a place to grow shellfish in Maine, he knew that picking the wrong patch of water could sink the farm before it began. So Saindon did something oyster farmers couldn’t have done a generation ago: He used NASA satellite data to view the coastline from space.

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