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
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
‘While we are sad to see this brave mission come to an end, we are excited for the future scientific discoveries it has opened by setting the foundation for the next generation planetary defense telescope.’ NEOWISE is depicted in an
“We believe that water, and a lot of it, once existed here.” An image of the region of Mars called Caralis Chaos, where copious water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU
“We’re in a kind of a new situation here.” Boeing Starliner docked at the International Space Station in 2024, during Crew Flight Test. (Image credit: NASA) Boeing Starliner may not bring its first astronauts home after all. NASA officials, absent a representative
Sierra Space’s LIFE habitat following a full-scale ultimate burst pressure test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Sierra Space An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra
“On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface.” NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars that may have once hosted microbial life. The rock, nicknamed
The agency plans to potentially reuse VIPER’s scientific instruments and other hardware on future moon missions. NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – sits assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency’s Johnson Space Center. (Image credit: