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NASA carried out its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station, bringing home four astronauts, including one who developed a serious but undisclosed medical condition. The crew—NASA’s Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA’s Kimiya Yui, and Russia’s Oleg Platonov—returned via a SpaceX Dragon capsule, landing in the Pacific near San Diego. The decision to […]
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday after spending an unexpected 286 days in space due to multiple spacecraft delays. Originally set for a brief test mission on Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June 2024, the duo ended up staying aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months as […]
A SpaceX Starship spacecraft exploded during its eighth test flight on Thursday, marking the second failure for the vehicle this year and disrupting air traffic. Less than 10 minutes into the flight, the Starship experienced problems as several engines cut out, leading to a loss of attitude control and subsequent tumbling before contact was lost. […]
Reports say President Elect Donald Trump named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new “Department of Government Efficiency” The roles would be providing advice and guidance from outside the government to the White House and its office management and Budgeting. Trump announces Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new […]
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 […]
The Polaris Dawn mission, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, aims to conduct the world’s first commercial spacewalk. Four astronauts, including mission commander Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, have trained extensively to prepare for the risks of spacewalking. If successful, Isaacman and Gillis will exit their Dragon capsule to float […]
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 […]
With the unidentified flying objects that were shot down by U.S. military people notice everything in the sky. In Western N.Y., there were several sightings of something like a light beam across the sky Monday. It has been confirmed that it was a SpaceX Starlink Satellite by the SpaceX website. It is a satellite constellation […]
With the unidentified flying objects that were shot down by U.S. military people notice everything in the sky. In Western N.Y., there were several sightings of something like a light beam across the sky Monday. It has been confirmed that it was a SpaceX Starlink Satellite by the SpaceX website. It is a satellite constellation […]
Space X has been testing a new prototype rocket that will hopefully take the first humans to mars in the near future, but they still have work to do. In the most recent test of the Starship S9 rocket, the vehicle shot a few miles into the air, hovered for a bit and then did […]
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