Space

Jeff Bezos' space company announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space, jumping into a market dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Williams and another astronaut, Butch Wilmore, were supposed to stay in space for a week in 2024, but concerns about the Boeing Starliner spacecraft kept them there until March.

The rollout sets the stage for tests and dress rehearsals ahead of NASA's first crewed flight to the moon since 1972.

The Senate voted to provide billions more to NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundation than the president had asked for.

This was the first time that a crew returned home early from the ISS because of a medical concern.

The nearly 11-hour mission will end with a deorbit burn to slow the spacecraft before it lands off the coast of California early Thursday.

The research has implications for NASA's goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

It will be the first time in the space station's 25-year history that a mission will be cut short because of a medical incident in space.

It will be the first such evacuation in the space station's 25-year history. NASA officials said the astronaut is stable.

A NASA spokeswoman said the astronaut with the medical concern, whom she did not identify, was in a stable condition on the orbiting laboratory.

The space agency lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.