Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Butch Wilmore have not been "abandoned" in space, as NASA considers plans to speed their return. Feb 7 Could an asteroid could hit Earth in 2032? Here's what to know. "An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousa...
Russia's state space corporation, Roscosmos, also sent its congratulations. Russia is also considering sending a spacecraft to the Tiangong. The European Space Agency sent its good wishes. Congratulations were also sent from Space X CEO Elon Musk and former Canadian astronaut Chris...
NASA astronaut Robert Behnken will launch to the International Space Station on the Demo-2 mission – the crew flight test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Credit: SpaceX To earn his masters and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, Behnken also logged many hours at Caltech, which manages the Jet P...
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NASA said both launch delays have been due to wave and wind limits along the Dragon flight path. Astronaut, cosmonaut crew spend more time on Earth awaiting liftoff The Crew-8 mission marks the eighth operation mission part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program and the ninth SpaceX launch carrying...
The four-person crew, commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, is scheduled to spend several days conducting research, outreach, and commercial activities on the space station. Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 1 at Māhia, New Zealand at 11:46 a...
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for the longest U.S. spaceflight. Rubio surpassed the U.S. space endurance record of 355 days on Monday at the International Space Station. He arrived at the outpost last September with two Russians for a routine six mo...
Every rocket launch is different and it takes a lot of people and safety checks to ensure that a 5.75 million pound rocket can safely launch into space. Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut and spacecraft communicator in the Mission Control Center bre
craft to carry astronauts. NASA awarded SpaceX with $2.4 billion for six operational missions. Dividing those up, each Crew Dragon launch costs about $400 million, with $220 million of that cost allotted to the four astronauts NASA expects to fly per mission — or$55 million per astronaut....
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata right, as they depart for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-5 mission launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, FL, today...