NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose in front of a graphic of the mission patch for the Starliner Crew Flight Test. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new
[02 Mar 2024] Russia acknowledges continuing air leak from its segment of space station
Roscosmos says specialists are monitoring leak, which poses no danger to crew or station. The International Space Station is one of the last remaining areas of collaboration between Russia and the west. Photograph: AP Russian space officials have acknowledged a
[28 Feb 2024] SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts eager for launch to ISS on March 1: ‘Things surprise you, but we’re ready’
A new set of astronauts are ready for an International Space Station launch. SpaceX is set to launch four new astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft for Crew-8, the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, to the International Space
[02 Feb 2024] SpaceX’s Starship to launch ‘Starlab’ private space station in late 2020s
The giant rocket will loft Starlab in a single launch. An illustration of Starlab, a Voyager Space-Airbus commercial space station targeted to begin operations in the late 2020s. (Image credit: Starlab Space LLC) The stars were aligned for this launch
[28 Jan 2024] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket modified for Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo launch on Jan. 30
“It’s taken a lot of modifications on our part to get this hardware ready to go fly.” A Northrop Grumman Cygnus freighter spacecraft in between two halves of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket payload fairing. (Image credit: NASA/Kennedy Space Center)
Smartphone App Turns Home Drone into Spacecraft
Playing AstroDrone. – ESA NOORDWIJK, The Netherlands, — A free ESA app released Friday turns a popular iPhone-controlled ‘home drone’ into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space