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Photographers set up remote cameras near NASA's Artermis II moon rocket on Launch Pad 39-B just before sunrise at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

NASA is shooting for the moon. A guide to the Artemis II mission

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

FILE - In his image provided by NASA, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is helped out of the SpaceX Crew-11 capsule after they re-entered the Earth in a middle-of-the-night splashdown near San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 15, 2026. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP, File)

Astronaut who lost speech on space station says doctors still baffled

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, the Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-28 space ship carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (Roscosmos space corporation, via AP)

U.S.-Russian crew of 3 blasts off to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft

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This image provided by NASA shows visiting crew in dark blue, Axiom Space's Peggy Whitson, left, Hungary's Tibor Kapu, 2nd left, India's Shubhanshu Shukla, center, and Poland's Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, center right, aboard the International Space Station, Thursday June 26, 2025. (NASA via AP)

International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Harris' stranded astronauts illustration by Alexander Hunter, The Washington Times

Harris’ stranded astronauts

By Newt Gingrich and Bob Walker

FILE - NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the international space station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

NASA astronauts who will spend extra months at the space station are veteran Navy pilots

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This undated handout photo released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022 shows the International Space Station (ISS) during its fly. Russian space corporation Roscosmos said that a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station that prompted a pair of Russian cosmonauts to abort a planned spacewalk was likely caused by a micrometeorite. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)

Space crew using robotic arm to inspect damaged capsule

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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2021 file photo provided by NASA, the International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour. Russia's space chief said Tuesday, July 26, 2022, that they will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost. (NASA via AP, File)

Russian space chief: no date yet for space station pullout

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this photo released by Gagarin Research&Test Cosmonaut Training Center/Roscosmos Russian space agency on Friday, July 22, 2022, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, left, reports during a comprehensive examination preparation for space mission at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in the Star City, just outside Moscow, Russia. U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio will be launched to the space station from Kazakhstan with two Russians in September. That same month, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will join two Americans and one Japanese aboard a SpaceX rocket flying from Florida. (Irina Spektor, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC)/Roscosmos Space Agency, via AP)

Russia to opt out of International Space Station after 2024

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In this photo provided by NASA, backdropped against clouds over Earth, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation on March 7, 2011. It was announced Friday, July 15, 2022, that NASA astronauts will go back to riding Russian rockets under a new agreement. At the same time, Russian cosmonauts will launch aboard U.S. rockets to the International Space Station beginning this fall. (NASA via AP, File)

U.S., Russia agree to resume integrated flights to the International Space Station

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency, the Russian Soyuz MS-19 space capsule lies on the ground shortly after the landing southeast of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Soyuz MS-19 capsule landed upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Wednesday with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov. (Alexander Pantiukhin, Roscosmos Space Agency via AP)

Russian space chief: Sanctions could imperil space station

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Pedestrians walk over an overpass as a cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city's airport early Friday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates: Zelenskyy says 9,000 leave besieged Mariupol

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Space flight participant Yusaku Maezawa attends a news conference ahead of the expedition to the International Space Station at the Gagarin Cosmonauts' Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 14, 2021. During an interview with the Associated Press on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, Maezawa said he experienced motion sickness after arriving at the space outpost and it took him a few days to adapt to zero gravity. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Japanese tourist says space trip ‘amazing’

By Harriet Morris and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos, actress Yulia Peresild, left, director Klim Shipenko' right, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, members of the prime crew of Soyuz MS-19 spaceship, pose at the Russian launch facility in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (Andrey Shelepin, Roscosmos Space Agency via AP) ** FILE **

Russian film crew blasts off to make first movie in space

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this image provided by NASA, from left, U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, members of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), attend a news conference in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP

American, Russians dock at International Space Station

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this image from video made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule separates from the International Space Station on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this frame grab from NASA TV, astronaut Bob Behnken is assisted out of the SpaceX capsule, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico. Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent a little over two months on the International Space Station. It will mark the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first time a private company has ferried people from orbit. (NASA TV via AP)

Space X capsule splashes down with Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken

By Marica Dunn - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy, left, Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin, centre, and Ivan Vagner, members of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), walk prior the launch of Soyuz MS-16 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 9, 2020. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP)

US-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan

By DARIA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Ayuh! 2 Mainers are in orbit aboard space station

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Russia will replace 2 cosmonauts set for launch to space

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