• NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter had a Wright Brothers moment on Mars after performing the first powered flight on another planet. It’s the first in many planned helicopter missions to other worlds. So what are engineers learning from the test? And — an aerial telescope is getting some new hardware to peer deep into the universe.
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• NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission spent the past two years at the asteroid Bennu, surveying its terrain and sucking up dust from the surface. On Monday it began firing its thrusters to start the two year journey home.
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• NASA administrator Bill Nelson has selected Bob Cabana as the agency’s associate administrator. Cabana served as Kennedy Space Center’s director since 2008.
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• China’s official Xinhua News Agency said the rocket’s reentry occurred at 7:24 p.m. local time Saturday above the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.
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• Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, alongside musical guest Miley Cyrus — how did he do?
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• A test mission for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule is targeting a launch from Cape Canaveral a year and a half after a previous attempt failed to reach the International Space Station.
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• A 100-foot long piece of space junk is making an uncontrolled descent into the atmosphere and trackers aren’t sure where it will land.
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