Boeing Starliner new astronaut taxi has landed safely back on Earth, wrapping up its long-anticipated and crucial demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Boeing Starliner capsule landed at...
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The Department of Defense is sticking with SpaceX and ULA launch as its two primary launch services for U.S. national security missions for the foreseeable future. The U.S. Air Force said on Friday it...
A European satellite that has been scrambling to escape premature death in Earth’s atmosphere due to bad space weather has narrowly avoided a collision with a random piece of space debris. Swarm, the satellite...
Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic announced Thursday (July 14) that it will build its next-generation Delta class spaceship at a manufacturing facility in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix. The Mesa plant could...
Putin was quoted by the Russian state media news source TASS on Tuesday (April 12), which was “Cosmonautics Day” in Russia. The annual celebration honors the launch of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who...
Multiple research teams are developing missions designed to address the planet’s potential as an abode for alien life — life that could be swirling high above the scorched surface within the relatively...
When Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted at SpaceX founder Elon Musk to ask for Starlink internet services amidst the Russian invasion, the tech billionaire delivered — with the help of the United...
By touching down in the landing zone – roughly 400km (250 miles) to the north-east of Russian space launch facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan – Vande Hei surpasses Nasa’s previous record for the longest...