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Scrub! SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites

By Space.com Staff

A veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit Sunday (Feb. 28) and you can watch it live here. Liftoff is at 8:37 p.m. EST (0137 March 1 GMT).

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with NASA astronaut Victor Glover to celebrate his mission to the International Space Station in a February 2021 video call.

Vice President Kamala Harris calls NASA astronaut on International Space Station

By Tariq Malik

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a truly cosmic call to the International Space Station last week to celebrate the milestone spaceflight of NASA astronaut Victor Glover.

A portion of the panorama captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The full panorama consists of 142 images taken on Feb. 21, 2021.

The top space stories of the week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

In photos: Perseverance rover's Mars landing celebrations at NASA and around the nation

By Christine Lunsford

From fist bumps at JPL to Mars donuts at Krispy Kreme and Red Planet billboards in New York City, people went all out for the Perseverance rover's landing.

An artist's concept of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars: Live updates

By Space.com Staff

Perseverance is set to land inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

Mary W. Jackson overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become the first African American female engineer to work at NASA. She later led the efforts to ensure equal opportunities for future generations. The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C. has been named in her honor.

NASA hosts ceremony renaming headquarters building for 'Hidden Figure' Mary Jackson

By Elizabeth Howell

NASA commemorated Mary Jackson, one of the agency's "Hidden Figures," today (Feb. 26) during a ceremony renaming the agency's headquarters after her.

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50 years ago, an Apollo 14 astronaut played golf on the moon. Here's the inside story.

By Elizabeth Howell

Most golfers really want to avoid sand traps, but NASA astronaut Alan Shepard had no choice but to deal with that when wielding a six-iron head on the moon's dusty surface 50 years ago this month.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars is carrying an adorable 'family portrait' of Martian rovers

By Hanneke Weitering

NASA's Perseverance rover has brought the "family portrait" bumper sticker fad to a whole new world.

In this image, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, you can see two Herbig-Haro objects, which are created when thin, stringy jets of ionized gas shooting out of stars collides with nearby clouds of gas and dust. The Herbig-Haro objects here, HH46 and HH47, were spotted in the constellation Vela (the sails), a whopping 1,400 light-years from Earth.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

By Space.com Staff

The core stage of the Artemis 1 SLS rocket as seen on the test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

NASA delays 2nd test fire of SLS megarocket booster due to valve issue

By Elizabeth Howell

NASA's moon megarocket is facing yet another testing delay ahead of the vehicle's expected first flight for the Artemis program.

NASA Mars 2020 mission members hid a secret message in the parachute that landed Perseverance on the surface of Mars.

Internet sleuths solve secret message on Perseverance rover's Mars parachute

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA hid a secret message on the parachute that landed its Perseverance rover down on the surface of Mars last week.

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren (left) and Bob Hines (right) will fly on the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station.

These 2 NASA astronauts will fly on SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station in 2022

By Elizabeth Howell

Two NASA astronauts will fly to the International Space Station on the fourth-ever commercial crew mission on SpaceX in 2022.

This still from a White House video shows U.S. President Joe Biden watching NASA's broadcast of the successful Mars landing by the Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, 2021.

Watch President Biden call NASA to celebrate the Perseverance rover's Mars landing

By Elizabeth Howell

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are hailing NASA for the Perseverance rover's Mars landing success.

An artist's depiction of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars.

The first helicopter on Mars phones home after Perseverance rover landing

By Elizabeth Howell

The first helicopter ever sent to another world is doing just fine on Mars after surviving a "seven minutes of terror" landing aboard NASA's Perseverance.

The core stage of the Artemis 1 SLS rocket as seen on the test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

NASA and Boeing will attempt 2nd hot fire test of SLS megarocket Feb. 25

By Meghan Bartels

NASA and Boeing are ready to light up the core stage of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in a second hot fire test, currently scheduled for Thursday (Feb. 25).

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The team is masked and distanced with accordance to COVID-19 safety precautions.

We did it: Celebrating a Mars rover landing in the time of COVID-19

By Chelsea Gohd

After a year of seemingly endless obstacles and challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, something good finally happened: NASA landed the Perseverance rover on Mars.

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'For All Mankind' Season 2 blasts off with nods to NASA's space shuttle past

By Robert Z. Pearlman

On May 21, 1983, it had been more than a decade since astronauts had walked on the moon. In the alternate history of "For All Mankind," though, humans were still on the lunar surface.

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

President Biden hails successful Mars landing of NASA's Perseverance rover

By Tariq Malik

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are hailing NASA for the Perseverance rover's Mars landing success.

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Feb. 18, 2021, after receiving confirmation that the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars.

Touchdown! NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars to begin hunt for signs of ancient life

By Mike Wall

The car-sized Perseverance, the most advanced robot ever sent to the Red Planet, aced its "seven minutes of terror" touchdown this afternoon (Feb. 18).

The Empire State Building in New York City was illuminated with red lights to celebrate the landing of NASA's Mars rover Perseverance.

NYC's Empire State Building turns red to celebrate NASA's Perseverance rover

By Elizabeth Howell

New York City's most famous building turned red overnight to celebrate NASA's Perseverance rover landing Thursday (Feb. 18).