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Said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: “I’ve talked to those Navy pilots. They know that they saw something.”

The Cargo Dragon capsule is carrying dozens of new science experiments to help researchers understand the biological challenges of spaceflight.

The two space probes will study Venus, a scorching hot world that may have once been like Earth. NASA chose the Venus missions over other candidates, such as trips to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune.

The mission, to study energy transfer in space, had a brilliant upshot for nighttime viewers. East Coasters saw the green and violet vapor clouds glowing above — and have the pictures to prove it.

It launched from Cape Canaveral in 2016.

The new plan is to begin undocking on Saturday at 8:35 p.m. EST and splashdown at 2:57 a.m. on Sunday. This will be the first time since 1962 that a splashdown will occur at night.

Lawmakers agreed to President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the space agency by consensus late Thursday, without a roll call vote.

The final piece of NASA’s next moon rocket was unloaded Thursday at Kennedy Space Center ahead of an uncrewed launch to the moon and back later this year.

It would prevent anyone who has recovered jettisoned capsule parts from selling the items on eBay.

It's the third flight of the Crew Dragon capsule since last May, and the first time an American capsule has been reused in decades. There are now more astronauts than beds on the space station.

The new arrivals — representing the U.S., France and Japan — will spend six months at the space station.

The company's third crewed spacecraft took off from Florida early Friday.