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NASA's "Orion" spacecraft performs a flyby of the Moon, coming within 130 km of the lunar surface before entering into a lunar orbit. 2022-11-21
Scientists announce that NASA's "Parker Solar Probe" became the first ever spacecraft to enter the stellar corona of the Sun during a flyby in April. 2021-12-14
Astronomers at Pan-STARRS announce the discovery of a small near-Earth object (NEO) HLV2514, which is an Amor asteroid near Mars. The asteroid was first discovered in June 2020 by two 14-year-old Indian schoolgirls who were participating in a NASA project. 2020-07-28
NASA announces that its "Curiosity" rover has detected the largest ever measurement of methane on Mars. 2019-06-24
President Trump nominates Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine, member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2017-09-1
The United Launch Alliance successfully launches NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida. The mission is to study asteroid 101955 Bennu and in 2023 to return a sample to Earth for detailed analysis. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid. 2016-09-8
NASA orders its first commercial crew mission from private company SpaceX. 2015-11-20
A pinch of fine sand and dust became the first solid Martian sample deposited into the Sample Analysis at Mars, the biggest instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The sample came from the patch of windblown material called Rocknest, which had provided a sample previously for mineralogical analysis by CheMin instrument. 2012-11-13
The US space agency NASA claims that it was hacked 13 times last year compromising security. 2012-03-2
More than 1,200 NASA employees are laid off despite a $19 billion funding budget passed by the United States Congress earlier in the week. 2010-10-1