One day after NASA’s safety advisory panel urged an independent review before launching Boeing’s Starliner commercial crew vehicle with astronauts aboard, the agency issued an assurance that it will launch only when ready. Crew safety is the highest priority and schedule adjustments will be made ...
NASA’s Artemis program faces many challenges to overcome to achieve its goal of landing humans on the Moon in 2024. There are the myriad technical problems that have already occurred, and will likely continue to crop up in the coming years as NASA completes development of the Space Launch Sy...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon that will launch the private orbital spaceflight dubbed Inspiration4, as seen during launch preparations.(Image credit: SpaceX) The launch took place from NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A atKennedy Space Centerin Florida on Sept. 14. SpaceX leases ...
And just as the moon orbits Earth in an elliptical orbit, so does Earth similarly orbit the sun. We get as close as 91.4 million miles in early January and pull as far away as 94.5 million miles in early July. The difference amounts to less than 3.5 percent, but the sun's gravitation...
Starliner’s launchon June 5 – which was alreadyyears behind schedule– was delayed by a helium leak that engineers ultimately decided was minor enough that they could fly. But after the capsule blasted off,four more helium leakspopped up. ...