A landing gear malfunction that caused a small commercial spacecraft to skid off the runway after its first unmanned flight Saturday caused relatively minor damage, an official with builder Sierra Nevada said. Read More...

Malcolm Scott Carpenter, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts who was forced to take manual control of his Aurora 7 capsule in a frightening re-entry, died early Thursday. He was 88.
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NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft went into "safe mode" just 10 minutes after a gravity-assist flyby of Earth Wednesday, but managers said Thursday they are back in touch and the spacecraft appears healthy.
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Returning to its starting point after a loop out beyond the orbit of Mars, NASA's Juno probe raced toward Earth Wednesday for a velocity-boosting flyby, using the planet's gravity to fling the craft on to Jupiter.
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With the federal government in partial shutdown, NASA is implementing drastic, across-the-board furloughs that will severely curtail ongoing research and development.
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