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The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, the first of the NASA's Artemis program, ends with a splashdown of the Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 17:40 UTC. 2022-12-11
NASA awards Lockheed Martin a contract to build a next-generation "Mars Ascent Vehicle" to return the first rock samples from Mars to Earth in the 2030s. 2022-02-8
Unknown astronomical object 2020 SO makes its closest approach to Earth at a perigee distance of approximately 0.13 lunar distances (50,000 km; 31,000 mi). Researchers, who discovered 2020 SO on September 17, 2020, are still unsure whether the object is a small near-Earth asteroid or an artificial object. The booster of Surveyor 2's Atlas-Centaur rocket, launched by NASA in 1966, is suspected by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 2020-12-1
NASA announces that the International Space Station will be opened for commercial business in 2020 for $58 million. 2019-06-7
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms earlier observations by Indian Space Research Organisation's Astrosat space observatory of a rotating black hole in the binary star system 4U1630-47, which is spinning close to the speed of light, one of the fastest ever observed. 2018-11-8
NASA orders its first commercial crew mission from private company SpaceX. 2015-11-20
NASA publishes the first close up photos of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft. They show geologically young mountains made of water ice. 2015-07-15
NASA's MRO spacecraft provides images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface. 2013-03-9
A temporary third radiation belt is discovered around planet Earth by NASA's twin Van Allen Probes. 2013-02-28
NASA and Lockheed Martin unveil the first space-bound Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral. [http:--www.floridatoday.com-article-20120702-SPACE-120702005-orion-delta-iv-4-spacecraft-kennedy-space-center?nclick_check=1 (Florida Today)]date=May 2020 2012-07-2