A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air…
Stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them. It was their first public comments since last week’s return of the Boeing Starliner capsule that took them to the International Space Station in June. They remained behind after NASA determined the problem-plagued…
In the early morning hours on Tuesday, four commercial astronauts soared into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, embarking on a historic mission. The four astronauts — Jared Isaacman, Kidd Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — will spend five days in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule orbiting Earth….
A crew of four private astronauts ascended into space early Tuesday on a risky SpaceX mission to attempt the first-ever private spacewalk using the company’s new spacesuits and a redesigned spacecraft. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees were launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard…
After months of turmoil over its safety, Boeing’s new astronaut capsule departed the International Space Station on Friday without its crew and headed back to Earth. NASA’s two test pilots stayed behind at the space station — their home until next year — as the Starliner capsule undocked 420 kilometres over China, springs gently pushing it…
It’s been a long time coming, but Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally returning to Earth — but without its two astronauts. The capsule is scheduled to depart the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, leaving behind test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, and land at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico early Saturday morning….
The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during a recent Starlink mission remains open, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday. SpaceX made the return to flight request for the workhorse vehicle on Thursday and the FAA gave approval on Friday. The agency…
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded after failing an attempt to land back on Earth during a routine Starlink mission, forcing the company’s second grounding this year. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched a batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit early on Wednesday morning from Florida. The rocket’s reusable…
Last Thursday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Vandenberg Space Launch Complex in California with a payload of 20 Starlink satellites. And like the preceding 325 times before, the launch seemed to go off without a hitch: the rocket reached space and the first stage returned, landing on a drone ship in the…
NASA said Wednesday it’s cancelling its water-seeking moon rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, citing cost overruns and launch delays. “We have some news that NASA intends to discontinue the VIPER mission,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s science mission directorate, said in a media teleconference on Wednesday afternoon. “Decisions of course…
