SPACEFLIGHT VETERANS

All is not well aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft that was responsible for ferrying two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station and back. However, everything is not going as planned by the team.

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, alongside Butch Wilmore, embarks on a significant mission flying Boeing's Starliner from Florida to the International Space Station, overcoming delays and contributing to the Commercial Crew Programme.

China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely because of US concerns over the Chinese military's total control of the space programme amid a sharpening competition in technology between the two ...

China's space agency preps Shenzhou-18 crew for low-Earth orbit mission on Thursday with plans to reach the moon by 2030. Crew will conduct scientific tests, install equipment, and promote science education.

A next-generation lunar rover, the Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) vehicle, has been successfully tested in California's Mojave Desert. Piloted by retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and MIT aerospace graduate student Michelle Lin, t...

A SpaceX rocket launched carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut for a six-month science mission on the International Space Station. The crew is designated as Crew 8 and will conduct experiments in the microgravity environme...

Limp, a more than 13-year veteran of Amazon, had overseen some of Amazon's well-known consumer devices, such as Echo products. However, he announced his retirement in August after that division struggled to bring in revenue and cut jobs.

China's next-generation crewed spacecraft, which can transport up to seven astronauts, may fly for the first time between 2027 and 2028. Recent tests on the return capsule of the next-generation spacecraft have been "very successful", with their fir...

Christina Koch, 44, an engineer who already holds the record for longest continuous spaceflight by a woman and was part of NASA's first three all-female spacewalks, was named as a mission specialist for the Artemis II lunar flyby expected as early a...

The autonomously flying spacecraft dubbed Endeavour docked with the space station shortly after 1:40 a.m. EST (0640 GMT) on Friday, about 25 hours after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The four-member crew should reach the International Space Station (ISS) about 29 hours later on Thursday evening to begin a 150-day science mission aboard the orbital laboratory some 250 miles (420 km) above Earth. The mission, designated Crew-5, ma...

Menon is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX.

Menon is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX, where she manages the development of crew operations and serves in mission control as both a Mission Director and crew communicator, a SpaceX release said.

NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for future lunar missions and a German materials scientist on their way to the International Sp...

SpaceX, the private rocketry company founded by Tesla Inc electric automaker CEO Elon Musk, supplied the spacecraft, launched it, flew it from the company's suburban Los Angeles headquarters and handled the recovery operation.

It marks the debut flight of Musk's new orbital tourism business.

"The Chinese side, as far as I understand, have multiplied the number of radar imaging satellites, earth observation satellites and communication satellites several fold so that they can have continuous coverage of the globe. So, they will get all k...

With the flight already delayed three days by bad weather, forecasters put the odds of acceptable conditions at 50-50 for the 3:22 p.m. liftoff of the 270-foot Falcon 9 in what would be the first launch of astronauts into orbit by a private company.

The flight would have marked the first time a private company sent humans into orbit.