Dramatic video footage showed flames billowing from the bottom of a NASA research plane as it made an emergency belly landing at a Texas airport Tuesday. The NASA WB-57 aircraft was forced to slide gears-up — or without its landing equipment deployed — onto the runway at Ellington Airfield in Houston after it experienced a mechanical issue at around 11:30 a.

Four astronauts have entered quarantine ahead of the first mission around the Moon in more than 50 years. The Artemis II mission is scheduled to lift off at some point next month, with Nasa rolling out the rocket earlier this month ahead of the launch window opening in early February.