Space tourists return to Earth

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Space tourists complete first-ever flight around Earth's poles
A wealthy bitcoin entrepreneur and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California to close out the first crewed flight around Earth's poles.
SpaceX’s Fram2 mission set to return from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth’s poles
The Fram2 mission, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, is on track to return after a journey on a unprecedented polar orbit.
Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles
Four space tourists are back on Earth after orbiting over the north and south poles. Their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Friday.

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The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.
‘City-killer’ asteroid now on crash course with the moon after Earth likely to dodge a direct hit
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon.
Chance of asteroid hitting Moon increases slightly
A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than previously thought, Nasa says. When first discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032 but the US space agency has cut that chance to 0.
Earth’s space junk problem got even worse in 2024, ESA reports
A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.
NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.
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Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years
An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army ...
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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...