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NASA and Boeing confirmed another extension to the Starliner crew flight test. There’s no specific return date set for the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The delay comes as engineers continue to assess technical issues with the spacecraft’s propulsion system. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived at the ISS on […]
Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally journeyed to space at the age of 90, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin. Dwight, an Air Force pilot championed by President John F. Kennedy as a NASA astronaut candidate, wasn’t selected for the 1963 class. On Sunday, Dwight experienced a few minutes of weightlessness […]
Ed Dwight, the United States’ first Black astronaut candidate, became the oldest person to go to space on Sunday as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft and completed its first human flight since 2022. The 90-year-old Dwight took his first trip to space more than 60 decades after President John F. Kennedy appointed […]
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If you are interested in viewing NASA’s DART mission here is all the information you will need. Starting at 6pm NASA will be live broadcasting coverage of the DART mission. The mission is an attempt to deflect an asteroid from it’s path. DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test. The mission began last year in […]
If you didn’t know us regular people are now traveling to space. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket has two trips to space in the history books. The last mission which took place at the beginning of October included actor William Shatner. Shatner is the oldest person to travel to space at 90 years of age. […]
British Billionaire Richard Branson (who owns Virgin Group, a company that owns several others such as Virgin mobile) started to test his brand new rocket over New Mexico. His company, Virgin Galactic, funded this rocket and Branson became the first person to ride into space. His aim is to eventually have ‘space tourism.’ However, prior […]
Wally Funk, who trained for NASA’s Mercury program, was denied going to space a half-century ago. However, she just found out she will finally have the opportunity to go to space. Jeff Bezos picked Funk to join himself, his brother and an as-yet known auction winner to join them on a suborbital trip July 20th. […]
Jeff Bezos announced he will be traveling to space after paying millions of dollars to fly in his own space craft. The federal Aviation Administration gave the green light to Virgin Galactic to start flying paying customers into space from New Mexico. Richard Branson Rocket ship company on Friday announced that the FAA updated the […]
Mars, we accomplished that so what planet is up next? Venus of course! NASA announced this week that the next mission is to get to Venus to see and examine the planet. They want to look at Venus’s geological features and the planet’s atmosphere. The cost to explore Venus is about half a billion dollars […]
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