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Boeing’s Starliner is about to launch; If successful, the test represents a major milestone for commercial spaceflight

If all goes well, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be launched into space on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on May 6, 2024. This last major test for Starliner, which will launch from Kennedy Space Center, will test the new spacecraft and take the duo to the International Space Station for about a week.… Read More »

Two US companies will send spacecraft to the Moon a few weeks apart

A pair of companies plan to send uncrewed spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year as part of a NASA-funded effort; This could mark the first US soft landing on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions. 1972. But in a sign of how the commercial space… Read More »

Two US companies will send spacecraft to the Moon a few weeks apart

A pair of companies plan to send uncrewed spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other early next year as part of a NASA-funded effort; This could mark the first US soft landing on the lunar surface since the last of the Apollo missions. 1972. But in a sign of how the commercial space… Read More »