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Archive for January 12th, 2021

Replay! SpaceX Dragon leaves International Space Station

January 12th, 2021 by

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth today (Jan. 12) to return science experiments and other gear to Earth in its first-ever Florida splashdown.

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Watch live! SpaceX Dragon leaving International Space Station

January 12th, 2021 by

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth today (Jan. 12) to return science experiments and other gear to Earth in its first-ever Florida splashdown.

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Rocket Lab targets early Saturday for microsatellite launch

January 12th, 2021 by

Rocket Lab’s first launch of 2021 will take place this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

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It’s really there! Kepler space telescope’s 2nd-ever exoplanet candidate finally confirmed.

January 12th, 2021 by

Astronomers just confirmed the existence of KOI-5Ab, which was first flagged as a potential planet by NASA’s pioneering Kepler space telescope way back in 2009.

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On This Day in Space! Jan. 12, 2005: Deep Impact spacecraft launches to a comet

January 12th, 2021 by

On Jan. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

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