Elon Musk criticized Boeing on X ahead of its first astronaut flight to space. SpaceX beat Boeing to the punch, flying NASA astronauts to the space station four years ago for cheaper. Musk said Boeing has “too many non-technical managers.” Elon Musk soured the day of Boeing’s first astronaut flight to space by lobbing criticism […]
Virgin Galactic will fly again next month, if all goes according to plan. The company announced on Wednesday (May 1) that it’s targeting June 8 for its seventh commercial spaceflight, a suborbital jaunt called, fittingly enough, Galactic 07. It will be Virgin Galactic‘s second spaceflight of the year, after the Galactic 06 mission on Jan. […]
SpaceX aims to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a 3.5-hour window that opens at 9:49 p.m. EDT […]
If all goes well late on May 6, 2024, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off into space on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Launching from the Kennedy Space Center, this last crucial test for Starliner will test out the new spacecraft and take the pair to the International Space Station for about a […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will serve as test pilots for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which is making its debut with crew after years of delay. They […]
The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part documentary concludes at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sunday. Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with […]
SpaceX had a busy Saturday evening (March 30), launching two rockets from Florida less than five hours apart. The action started at 5:52 p.m. EDT (2152 GMT) on Saturday, when a Falcon 9 rocket sent the Eutelsat 36D telecommunications satellite skyward from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Then, at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT on […]
SpaceX will launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California tonight (March 10), in the second leg of a planned spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base during a 3.5-hour window that opens tonight at 10:13 p.m. EDT (0213 GMT […]
India has revealed a shortlist of air force pilots who will fly on the country’s first human spaceflight mission. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the four “astronaut-designates” at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, in the southwestern state of Kerala, on Tuesday (Feb. 27). The selected individuals are Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain […]
NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson had already flown into space twice. But he remembers feeling “absolutely astounded” by how quickly Atlantis vaulted off the launch pad in July 2011, kicking off America’s final historic shuttle mission. “You actually went into space upside-down. And when you’re upside-down, the pilot’s window — which is where I was sitting, […]
Virgin Galactic’s sixth commercial spaceflight may be just around the corner. The launch window for the crewed suborbital mission, known as Galactic 06, opens on Jan. 26. And, to help remind us of this fact and build up interest in the flight, Virgin Galactic just released the mission’s patch. “The patch represents the Ukrainian, Austrian […]
The home of a famously sunken Mercury capsule and the spacecraft that brought the Apollo 13 crew back to Earth is getting an upgrade. The Cosmosphere, a world-class space museum located in Hutchinson, Kansas, announced this week that it is ready to continue with the redesign and renovation of its Hall of Space, a series […]