NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years

NASA began a two-day practice countdown Saturday leading up to the fueling of its new moon rocket, a crucial test that will determine when four astronauts blast off on a lunar flyby. Already in quarantine to avoid germs,
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NASA’s $1B probe hit 400,000 mph to skim the sun, here’s what it saw

NASA spent roughly a billion dollars to send a car‑sized robot into the Sun’s atmosphere, and to get there it had to accelerate to about 400,000 mph, faster than any spacecraft in history. That extreme journey has now paid off with the closest images ever taken of our star and a trove of data from