Private Spaceflight VIEW MORE Science & Astronomy New moon of April 2025 sees Venus and Saturn join up in the sky this weekend ByJesse EmspakpublishedApril 25, 2025 The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conju...
Dozens gather on the lawn of the Kennedy Space Center press site to watch as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off with NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Hot on the heels of its successful mid-air booster catch during its...
Rookie NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and veteran space flier Stephanie Wilson were pulled from this flight after NASA opted to go with SpaceX to bring the stuck astronauts home. Promised a future space mission, both were at NASA’s Kennedy Space Cent...
RELATED: US astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth in Russian capsule after record-long spaceflightMark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan alongside the Russian Space Agency’s Pyotr Dubrov, who also spent the past year in space, and Anton Shkaplerov. ...
Visualization: NASA , Jared Isaacman, found it strangely difficult to tell his Senate confirmation hearing whether Elon Musk was part of his job interview or not. That’s odd, because he must have met Musk — Isaacman funded, and flew on, twoprivatespaceflightsusing Musk’s SpaceX craft. ...
Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's commercial spaceflight partnerships and crewed missions from the Space Coast, as well as NASA science missions and more. He also enjoys building 1:144-scale model rockets and human-flown spacecraft. Find some of Josh's launch photography on Instagram ...
Bridenstine suggested that the industry could be worth $1 trillion with the addition of human spaceflight. "Our goal is to have SpaceX be able to do missions one day without NASA," Bridenstine said. "We want them to go get customers that are not us." The test w...
Space Center newsroom, this feed is video-only and does not include any audio or commentary. The lack of independent press access to such a major test has raised questions from the space community, but NASA says this decision is due to national security concerns, according toSpaceFlightNow. ...
The space agency’s new, cornerstone human spaceflight program, called Artemis, aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. The Artemis program hasn’t taken off yet, as NASA is still working to get its mega moon rocket off the ground. But Mann was selected as...
Today’s launch is a milestone achievement for the future of spaceflight. Butch and Suni—safe travels through the stars. See you back home.” SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk, whose company is a director competitor of Boeing’s, offered his congrats on X as well. “Congratulations on ...