NASA canceled a spacewalk on the International Space Station today (June 24) following a spacesuit coolant leak in the hatch. NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mike Barratt were told by Mission Control to abort a planned 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:52 a.m. EDT (1252 GMT). The duo had switched… Read More »
NASA astronauts had to wait as they tried to dock Boeing’s first manned Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, June 6. The five aft thrusters in the Starliner service module were disabled. And that was after flight controllers found workarounds for two new helium leaks in addition to one the spacecraft already… Read More »
After years of delays, Boeing is finally ready to launch the first Starliner astronaut mission for NASA with a test flight to the International Space Station on May 6. Know when to adjust. But don’t worry, space fans. We protected you. Currently, Boeing’s first Starliner carrying astronauts will be launched into orbit on Monday. 22:34… Read More »
The “flies” are ready to fly, so NASA needs some new flyers (and girls) again. On the same day that the space agency welcomed its newest class of astronauts, nicknamed “The Flies,” NASA announced that it is again accepting applications for the next group of candidates for flights to the International Space Station, the Moon,… Read More »
SpaceX sent another crew of four to the International Space Station tonight (March 3). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 10:53 PM EST tonight (0353 GMT, March 4) with four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission. . The rocket’s two stages separated… Read More »
A view from the Intuitive Machines Odysseus mission in Earth orbit on February 16, 2024. (Intuitive Machines via The New York Times) On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a company in Houston came close to reaching the moon. The Intuitive Machines company announced that the Odysseus spacecraft fired its engine for six… Read More »
On Wednesday morning, a robotic lunar lander launched by a company in Houston came close to reaching the moon. The Intuitive Machines company announced that the Odysseus spacecraft fired its engine for six minutes and 48 seconds, slowing down enough to be pulled by the moon’s gravity into a circular orbit 51 miles above the… Read More »
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a new private lunar lander to the moon for Intuitive Machines and NASA this week, and you can watch it live online in a series of free webcasts. Intuitive Machines’ first Nova-C lander mission, called IM-1, will launch to the moon aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on February… Read More »
NASA’s newest Earth observation satellite has managed to reach orbit. The nearly $1 billion PACE mission, which the Trump administration has tried to cancel four separate times, launched early this morning (Feb. 8) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Once operational, PACE will make important observations about Earth’s… Read More »
In the future, it will not be so difficult to make precision landings on the steep, rocky and crater-filled face of the Moon. At least that’s the goal of NASA’s Lunar Retroreflector Array (LRA) program, an initiative that interfaces with U.S. and foreign Moon landing attempts. The LRA consists of a dome-shaped device with small… Read More »