NASA Sends 4 Astronauts
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Four astronauts are on their way home to Earth on Thursday after an earlier-than-scheduled departure from the International Space Station. NASA officials called it a “controlled medical evacuation,” the first time in 25 years an astronaut left the I.S.S. for this reason.
NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday and is taking the rare step of ending the Crew-11 mission early.
Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway stars. From its perch a million miles from Earth, Webb’s huge gold-coated mirror collects more light than any other telescope put into space.
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