ISS
Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since June, welcomed a SpaceX capsule that will bring them home in 2024. SpaceX launched a rescue mission on Saturday with a crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams. This came after NASA deemed […]
A recent SpaceX rocket failure has left 20 Starlink satellites in a dangerously low orbit, leading to their inevitable reentry and destruction in Earth’s atmosphere. The Falcon 9 rocket, launched from California on July 11, 2024, experienced an upper stage engine malfunction due to a liquid oxygen leak. This is SpaceX’s first failure in nearly […]
Boeing is gearing up for a pivotal moment with the first crewed launch of its Starliner space capsule, scheduled for late Monday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This significant step comes after several setbacks, including previous test flight failures and design flaws. The Starliner’s journey has been marred by issues such as an incorrectly set […]
NASA plans to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by crashing it into the ocean at the end of 2030, marking the end of its over three-decade tenure orbiting Earth. The agency is collaborating with private companies—Axiom Space, Voyager Space, and Blue Origin—to develop a new space station that will be privately owned, built, and […]
NASA officials just announced that they discovered where the leak on the International Space Station is coming from. Flight controllers and astronauts have been trying to identify the source, as the leak has been growing for weeks. NASA announced on Tuesday that they found the leak in the main work area of the Russian Zvezda […]
Astronauts at the ISS recently tweeted a picture of the great lakes region where Rochester is clearly visible. Doug Hurley, an astronaut part of the recent mission where NASA crew members used a SpaceX ship to launch from U.S. soil tweeted a picture and commented: “I stayed up late last night to spend some time […]
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