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October 20, 2015

Spacecraft achieves flyby of Pluto, then calls home

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got humanity's first up-close look at Pluto on Tuesday, sending word of its triumph across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home.

October 20, 2015

Start of NASA's dwarf planet mission delayed after communication mix-up

NASA said Friday observations of a dwarf planet have been delayed slightly after a communication glitch.

October 20, 2015

Twin fools NASA at brother's launch on 1-year flight

Astronaut Scott Kelly's identical twin pulled a fast one on NASA right before his brother blasted off on a one-year space station mission.

October 20, 2015

American, Russian leave Earth this week for year in space

An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are moving into the International Space Station this week and staying for an entire year.

October 20, 2015

NASA delays space station spacewalk by day because of suit issue, 1st in series over next week

A series of upcoming spacewalks at the International Space Station will begin a day late.

October 20, 2015

Boeing passes second key test for NASA space taxi flights in 2017

The private spaceflight company Boeing is on its way toward launching astronauts to space for NASA by 2017.

October 20, 2015

8 most important spaceflight stories of 2014

From accidents to soaring daredevils to space capsules, 2014 was a big year in spaceflight.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX delays space station delivery until January, extra tests needed for Falcon rocket

The space station astronauts will have to wait until next month for their Christmas delivery.

October 20, 2015

SpaceX will try to land rocket on floating ocean platform next week

SpaceX will apparently attempt something truly epic during next week's cargo launch to the International Space Station.

October 20, 2015

Most of Earth's water came from asteroids, not comets

Asteroids, not comets, may have delivered most of Earth's water to the planet when the solar system was young, new data from a probe orbiting a comet suggests.