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U.S. officials have long invoked Bruce Willis’ name in the interests of planetary security. At a 2013 Senate hearing with experts to discuss the threat that asteroids pose to Earth, noted humorist Ted Cruz quipped, “I was disappointed that Bruce Willis was not available to be a fifth witness on the panel.” Flash…

Is it merely coincidence that NASA's Perseverance landed on Mars on Thursday and the alt-history space race drama For All Mankind saw its second season debut Friday on Apple TV+? Not according to some of the series' creators and cast. "The timing isn't bad either I have to give Apple credit for making it right for our…

UPDATED, 1:57 PM: Saturday’s planned SpaceX/NASA mission launch has been scrubbed and rescheduled for a day later due to a bad weather forecast. Discovery and Science Channel now will begin their live coverage at 2 p.m. PT on Sunday. EXCLUSIVE, November 11: SpaceX and NASA are reteaming to make some more history…

Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman’s may head into space for their film in October 2021, images from the Space Shuttle Almanac reveal. On Monday the Twitter for the Space Shuttle Almanac shared a photo of spacecrafts and countries set to launch in the next three years. While the chart may seem like an assuming collage…

Discovery and Science Channel’s simulcasted coverage Sunday of the return of the Space X Crew Dragon spacecraft from its two-month stint at the International Space Station was watched by 4.3 million viewers on the cable networks, Discovery said. The strong numbers completed the networks’ own mission, after their…

They’re baaa-ackk. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken returned safely to Earth after a two-month stay on the space station. The SpaceX Dragon Capsule splashed down just south of Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf coast at 2:48 PM ET, marking a successful end to the first successful journey into space by a private…

The NASA-SpaceX Demo-2 mission will come to an end Sunday when the spacecraft completes its two-month journey to the International Space Station and back. The two-man SpaceX Crew Dragon is expected to splash down at 2:48 p.m. ET, with the target landing area the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, FL, after…

Some stories are best told visually. With that in mind, Deadline today launches Deadline Now, a regular video series that will reveal a different side of the stories our readers care most about. It will explore everything from castings to COVID, ratings to firings, and late-night TV to the latest breaking news. The…

Some 19 hours after it left Cape Canaveral in Florida, a SpaceX capsule carrying two NASA astronauts has successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday morning. The mission marks the first time a private company has put humans into space. The capsule arrived 15 minutes ahead of schedule, as…

NASA and SpaceX on Saturday successfully launched the Elon Musk-led company’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying two NASA astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft in a picture-perfect liftoff this afternoon from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL. The launch was postponed Wednesday due to weather concerns but…

NASA and SpaceX pulled off a successful launch Saturday of the Elon Musk-led company's Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 3:22 PM ET, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft for an historic…

SpaceX and NASA’s historic launch of its crewed Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station planned for Wednesday has been postponed because of weather problems. The mission was scrubbed with 16 minutes, 54 seconds left on the countdown at Cape Canaveral, FL. They will try again with an instantaneous window on…