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The Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser space plane, shown here in an inflatable version, will use NASA's space shuttle runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to land after future space missions.

Private Dream Chaser space plane to land on NASA's former shuttle runway

By Mike Wall

The private Dream Chaser space plane will touch down at the Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) to wrap up its cargo missions to the International Space Station for NASA.

A conservator uses a vacuum to clean inside Freedom 7, the first Mercury capsule to carry a U.S. astronaut into space 60 years ago, in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Smithsonian inspects first US astronaut's space capsule, suit 60 years on

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Conservators have spruced up Alan Shepard's spacesuit and Mercury capsule.

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961 aboard his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7.

US spaceflight at 60: A lot has changed since NASA's 1st crewed mission

By Elizabeth Howell

It was 60 years ago today (May 5) that Alan Shepard, America's first spaceflyer, urged nervous flight controllers to ''fix your little problem and light this candle" to send him into space.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida before launching the Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite into orbit on Sept. 10, 2018.

Watch live: SpaceX rocket launching 60 Starlink satellites today

By Space.com Staff

A used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 60 Starlink satellites from Florida today (May 4) and you can watch it live here, courtesy of SpaceX.

An aerial view of NASA's SLS rocket being offloaded from the Pegasus Barge on April 29, 2021, after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In photos: NASA's SLS megarocket core stage arrives in Florida for 1st Artemis moon mission

By Amy Thompson

NASA's next megarocket for the moon, the Space Launch System (SLS) has arrived in Florida. The behemoth's core stage arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center via barge last Tuesday evening (April 27).

May 3, Bill Nelson was sworn in as the new NASA administrator.

Former Senator Bill Nelson sworn in as new NASA Administrator

By Chelsea Gohd

There's a new NASA chief in town. Today (May 3), former U.S. senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), 78, was sworn in as the agency's 14th administrator.

NASA scientist Jess Bunchek holding a freshly harvested bunch of rucola grown in the ISS EDEN greenhouse in Antarctica.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

By Space.com Staff

NASA scientist Jess Bunschek harvests rocket at the EDEN ISS greenhouse in Antarctica, which tests advanced technologies that might be used in the future to grow food on the Moon and Mars.

Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" spacecraft shortly after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico, on May 2, 2021.

SpaceX Crew Dragon makes 1st nighttime splashdown with US astronauts since Apollo era

By Meghan Bartels

A SpaceX Dragon capsule returned four astronauts to Earth early Sunday (May 2) in the first nighttime splashdown of a NASA crew since Apollo 8 in 1968.

In this image, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins captured the Earth with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in the lunar module. Collins snapped this photo as the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" was returning to the command module, on July 21, 1969.

The top space stories of the week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

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

From left, NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" spacecraft on board the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on May 2, 2021.

SpaceX's Crew-1 astronaut mission to the International Space Station in photos

By Space.com Staff

See photos of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission, the first operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on SpaceX's Crew-1 mission.

SpaceX's Crew-1 astronaut mission for NASA: Live updates

By Space.com Staff

SpaceX plans to launch the first operational flight of its Crew Dragon astronaut taxi to the International Space Station on Nov. 14, 2020.

SpaceX's Crew-1 Dragon capsule Resilience is seen in camera view from the International Space Station after undocking from the orbital lab on May 1, 2021 to return four astronauts back to Earth.

SpaceX Dragon leaves space station for NASA's 1st nighttime crew splashdown since 1968

By Amy Thompson

SpaceX's first long-duration astronaut mission is coming to an end, with a Dragon capsule undocking from the International Space Station and headed for a splashdown Sunday.

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 to lead National Space Council under Biden administration

By Tariq Malik

The National Space Council will continue in a new form under the Biden White House with Vice President Kamala Harris at the helm.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft "Resilience" is seen docked to the Harmony module's forward docking adapter at the International Space Station on Jan. 27, 2021. The spacecraft will return to Earth with its four-astronaut crew on May 2.

A SpaceX Dragon will make the 1st nighttime splashdown with NASA astronauts in 53 years. Watch it live.

By Tariq Malik

The four astronauts of SpaceX's first operational crewed flight for NASA are ready to come home and you can watch their return to Earth live this weekend.

SpaceX and NASA's Crew-1 astronauts. From left: NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts will return to Earth Sunday after weather delay

By Tereza Pultarova

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the return to Earth for four astronauts on the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station until Sunday (May 2) due to bad weather.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will continue to fly on the Red Planet as today (April 30), NASA announced that its mission will be extended for 30 sols.

NASA extends Mars helicopter Ingenuity's high-flying mission on Red Planet

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will keep flying for an additional 30 days (at least), the agency announced today (April 30).

Former Senator Bill Nelson spoke in front of his old committee on April 21, 2021, during his confirmation hearing.

Senate unanimously confirms Bill Nelson as the next NASA chief

By Chelsea Gohd

Former U.S. senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) was officially and unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the agency's new administrator Thursday (April 29).

Astronaut Michael Collins is in a spacesuit inside of a spacecraft during NASA's Gemini 10 mission.

In photos: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins' space missions

By Chelsea Gohd

Following his death at age 90, we look back at Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins' colorful life in photos.

Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins trains aboard a spacecraft simulator in preparation for the 1969 mission.

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut who orbited moon, dies at 90

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon during the world's first lunar landing mission, has died at the age of 90.

Michael Collins training in the Apollo command module simulator in preparation for the Apollo 11 mission in June 1969.

Astronauts and the world mourn death of Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins

By Chelsea Gohd

People around the world are mourning the death of Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the command module for the first-ever moon landing in 1969.