NASA’s Test Flight of Orion Spacecraft Is Delayed
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
After a glitch developed in the launch rocket’s fuel system, the agency postponed the flight until Friday morning.
The spacecraft returned to Earth, just a mile off target in the Pacific Ocean, about four and a half hours after it was launched from Florida.
After a glitch developed in the launch rocket’s fuel system, the agency postponed the flight until Friday morning.
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The ambitious mission succeeded, despite a potential showstopper problem, when a signal arrived at Darmstadt, Germany, just after 11 a.m. Eastern time.
Joel W. Parker, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, answers questions about putting a 220-pound lander on a comet.
A selection of images from NASA’s Curiosity rover as it drives toward Mount Sharp.
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The Academy Award-winning director James Marsh discusses his newest project, “The Theory of Everything,” which chronicles the life of the cosmologist Stephen Hawking.