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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to undock at 12:05 p.m. ET after historic ISS‑boosting mission

SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 12:05 p.m. ET today, beginning its return to Earth after completing a historic mission that delivered supplies and performed an on‑orbit station boost. Recovery teams will retrieve payloads after splashdown.

2026-02-25T21:13:11.623718-08:00

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Senate panel moves to extend ISS to 2032 and accelerate Artemis lunar-base policy

2026-02-25T17:36:33.799000-08:00

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Mike Fincke identifies himself as the Crew‑11 astronaut whose medical emergency triggered the ISS's first in‑flight evacuation

2026-02-25T10:37:18.290514-08:00

Universe Today

Curiosity examines 'spiderweb' boxwork ridges on Mount Sharp; fourth sample sent to lab

2026-02-25T12:54:31.214123-08:00

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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to undock at 12:05 p.m. ET after historic ISS‑boosting mission SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 12:05 p.m. ET today, beginning its return to Earth after completing a historic mission that delivered supplies and performed an on‑orbit station boost. Recovery teams will retrieve payloads after splashdown.

2026-02-25T21:13:11.623718-08:00

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to undock at 12:05 p.m. ET after historic ISS‑boosting mission

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Senate panel moves to extend ISS to 2032 and accelerate Artemis lunar-base policy A Senate Commerce Committee markup will consider a NASA authorization bill to extend the International Space Station’s operational life by two years to 2032, giving industry more time to develop commercial LEO successors. The measure also revises Artemis lunar-base policy to speed establishment of a permanent presence and respond to China’s expanding space activity.

2026-02-25T17:36:33.799000-08:00

Senate panel moves to extend ISS to 2032 and accelerate Artemis lunar-base policy

Associated Press

Apollo lunar samples reveal new evidence of the Moon's ancient magnetic field Analyses of Apollo-era lunar rock samples collected more than 50 years ago are yielding new insights into the Moon's ancient magnetic field. Re-examination of those samples provides a fresh perspective on when and how a planetary-scale dynamo may have operated on the early Moon.

2026-02-25T16:34:52.109900-08:00

Apollo lunar samples reveal new evidence of the Moon's ancient magnetic field

Universe Today

Curiosity examines 'spiderweb' boxwork ridges on Mount Sharp; fourth sample sent to lab NASA's Curiosity rover has imaged and sampled hilly 'spiderweb' boxwork ridges on Mount Sharp, capturing its fourth drilled sample from the feature set. Pending geochemical results aim to clarify Gale Crater's watery history and put recent organic detections into stratigraphic context.

2026-02-25T12:54:31.214123-08:00

Curiosity examines 'spiderweb' boxwork ridges on Mount Sharp; fourth sample sent to lab

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Mike Fincke identifies himself as the Crew‑11 astronaut whose medical emergency triggered the ISS's first in‑flight evacuation NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has identified himself as the Crew‑11 member whose medical condition aboard the ISS prompted NASA’s first in‑flight medical evacuation. The four‑person crew undocked early and splashed down near San Diego on Jan. 15 after a planned spacewalk was canceled; investigators are still reviewing the incident.

2026-02-25T10:37:18.290514-08:00

Mike Fincke identifies himself as the Crew‑11 astronaut whose medical emergency triggered the ISS's first in‑flight evacuation

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ISRO pins NVS-02 failure on unconnected wiring that caused pyro‑valve signal loss and blocked orbit raise More than a year after launch, ISRO's apex committee concluded a pyro‑valve signal loss — traced to unconnected wiring — caused a valve malfunction that prevented the NVS‑02 navigation satellite from executing its planned orbit‑raising manoeuvres. The finding attributes the programme setback to a hardware/integration error.

2026-02-25T09:53:19.555605-08:00

ISRO pins NVS-02 failure on unconnected wiring that caused pyro‑valve signal loss and blocked orbit raise

Universe Today

Why Mars missions need more than greenhouses: a systems view of food and life support A new paper in Acta Astronautica argues growing food is only one small part of sustaining crews on Mars and calls for a systems‑level view of food and life‑support. The authors warn that focusing on greenhouses alone obscures the logistics, reliability and integration challenges of a full mission food system.

2026-02-25T07:51:54.909534-08:00

Why Mars missions need more than greenhouses: a systems view of food and life support

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ALMA's largest-ever radio map of the Milky Way's center reveals 650‑ly filaments of cold gas Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers produced the largest-ever radio mosaic of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone, mapping cold molecular gas and filamentary structure across more than 650 light‑years. The most detailed view of the Galactic center to date could inform models of star formation and early‑universe analogues.

2026-02-25T05:11:17.015127-08:00

ALMA's largest-ever radio map of the Milky Way's center reveals 650‑ly filaments of cold gas

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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to undock at 12:05 p.m. ET after historic ISS‑boosting mission

Senate panel moves to extend ISS to 2032 and accelerate Artemis lunar-base policy

Mike Fincke identifies himself as the Crew‑11 astronaut whose medical emergency triggered the ISS's first in‑flight evacuation

Curiosity examines 'spiderweb' boxwork ridges on Mount Sharp; fourth sample sent to lab

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