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Astronauts · United StatesJames Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA said in a statement on Friday.See the Story
Commander of Apollo 13 mission, Jim Lovell, dies
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Astronauts · United StatesAfter more than four months aboard the International Space Station, four astronauts safely returned to Earth Saturday morning with a splashdown off the coast of San Diego, wrapping up NASA and SpaceX's Crew-10 mission.See the Story
SpaceX Astronauts Splashdown Safely Off Southern California Coast
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Space · United StatesUnited Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventually will replace the company's Atlas 5 and already-retired Deltas.See the Story
United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket blasts off on first Space Force-sanctioned flight
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