An international crew of four men and two women blasted off and rocketed to the edge of space Saturday, enjoying a few minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this-world view before plunging back to Earth to wrap up Blue Origin\’s twelfth New Shepard passenger flight.\”It was such an incredible ride,
Four outgoing International Space Station crew members undocked from the lab complex Friday and set their sights on a Pacific Ocean splashdown Saturday to close out a 148-day mission.Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov bid
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Barring any last-minute technical issues, it’s really only the weather that can cause problems for SpaceX’s Starship launch on Sunday, August 24. So, how’s it looking?The weather forecasts for SpaceX’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica, Texas, appear to be looking good for
Running a day late, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Friday on a mission to deliver a fresh three-man one-woman crew to the International Space Station.The Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:43 a.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as mission control kept a close eye on clouds rolling into the
Astronomers have, for the first time, discovered the moment when planets started to form around a sun-like baby star, scientists reported Wednesday.The specks of planet-forming material are emerging around HOPS-315, a protostar or baby star located 1,300 light-years away from us. One light year is a
Concern about a small but persistent air leak in a Russian compartment of the International Space Station has prompted NASA and Axiom Space to indefinitely delay this week\’s launch of a commercial flight to the orbiting outpost, officials said Thursday.The privately-financed Axiom-4 crew — com
Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in ourMilky Way.An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely — is emitting X-rays around the same time it\’s shooting out radio waves. What\’s more, the cycle
NASA will wait at least another day to send a fresh crew to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, including three fliers who were assigned to the flight after NASA ran into problems with Boeing\’s troubled Starliner capsule last year.Liftoff from pad 39A at the Kennedy
NASA captured an image of an intense solar flare released by the sun on Tuesday evening.The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA\’s Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class flare — the most intense kind, NASA said. Solar flares are essentially \”giant explosions on the
Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to space.Strapped into SpaceX\’s Crew Dragon Endurance, commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese
