The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, onboard, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Polaris Dawn has risen. The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched early this morning (Sept. 10), with the goal of making some spaceflight history. Polaris Dawn, which aims to conduct the first-ever private spacewalk, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at
It’s too soon to tell when Starliner will fly again. Boeing’s Starliner capsule descends through Earth’s atmosphere on Sept. 7, 2024, heading for the touchdown that ended its Crew Flight Test mission. (Image credit: NASA) Boeing’s Starliner capsule just returned to
Starliner completes its deorbit burn From CNN’s Jackie Wattles A brief burn of the engines on board the Starliner capsule has put the spacecraft on its final trajectory home. The maneuver will plunge Starliner back into Earth’s atmosphere, leaving the
Don’t worry, it’s doing fine. A black and white image shows a silvery sheet of material toward the bottom. (Image credit: NASA) On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could
Mission Control at Johnson Space Center, Houston, likens the sound to a ‘pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping’ Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station’s Harmony Module. (Image credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr) On Saturday (Aug. 31) NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore
The agency is still investigating a failed Aug. 28 Falcon 9 landing, but the rocket can resume flying in the meantime. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 21 Starlink satellites on Aug. 10, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) Well, that was quick.
SpaceX is set to launch its Polaris Dawn mission, featuring an all-civilian crew aiming for the first private citizen spacewalk, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a window starting Wednesday at 3:38 am local time. An earlier launch
“The gravity assist flyby was flawless.” An image of Earth snapped by Juice as it made a historic flyby on August 20, 2024 (Image credit: ESA/Juice/JMC) The European Space Agency’s JUICE spacecraft — which stands for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer —
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to probe some of the deepest regions of our universe. Messier 106, also known as NGC 4258, is a nearby spiral galaxy that resides roughly 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. (Image