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NASA has delayed the launch of its new James Webb Space Telescope following an “incident” that happened affecting its connection to the rocket.
An early morning liftoff kicks off DART, NASA’s first mission to test a spacecraft that could one day save Earth from a deadly space rock.
An early morning liftoff kicks off DART, NASA’s first mission to test a spacecraft that could one day save Earth from a deadly space rock.
NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid for the first time ever as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a planetary defense mission.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Tuesday announced the crew of its Dec. 9 launch, which will carry “Good Morning America” co-anchor and former New York Giant Michael Strahan.
A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.
Three of the four astronauts aboard Crew-3 are making their first trip to space.
The agency was satisfied after a review of the incident during Monday’s landing of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
The astronauts will replace a crew that landed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. They will stay in orbit until April 2022.
After bringing home another crew, SpaceX will launch four more people to the International Space Station in its Dragon capsule.
The UK’s central bank has said it will begin consulting on plans for launching a “Britcoin” next year – but has cautioned that no such central digital currency will arrive before 2025.
NASA has postposed the launch of a SpaceX rocket taking four astronauts to the International Space Station on unspecified medical grounds.
Competing with SpaceX, OneWeb and others, the e-commerce titan will rely on small rockets to get prototypes of its satellite constellation into space.
The four crew members, three Americans and one German, were originally scheduled to launch on Sunday.
SpaceX is taming some toilet troubles in its Dragon capsules before launching four more astronauts.
They’re making this fix a No. 1 priority. During the SpaceX’s first all-civilian launch last month, a urine tube came unglued, spilling the bodily liquid onto fans and beneath the floor panels.
A discussion of repairs of the waste management systems used aboard the company’s passenger spacecraft offered rare insight into how it manages engineering problems.
NASA is now targeting February 2022 for the launch of its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
Hackers tied to the group Anonymous defaced a private version of the former president’s app, Truth Social, posting images of defecating pigs and explicative-laced rants.
The country, which aspires to be a leader in space technology, says it has plans to land an uncrewed craft on the moon by 2030.
Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to “stand up to the tyranny of big tech”.
The elaborate 12-year journey of the robotic spacecraft will offer close encounters with some of the solar system’s least understood objects.
Three other passengers are on the flight, two of them paying to be there.
The actor who played Captain Kirk and three others will lift off soon in a tourist rocket built by Jeff Bezos’ private spaceflight company.
The largest US crypto exchange is launching a marketplace for the one-of-a-kind digital collectibles by the end of this year, Coinbase said on Tuesday.
The first trips from the UK to space are a step closer following an agreement between an Edinburgh-based rocket company and a Shetland spaceport.
The United Arab Emirates announced plans to send a probe to land on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter to collect data on the origins of the universe.
It’s only the edge of space, but the man who played the “Star Trek” captain is heading there with three other people for Blue Origin’s second flight with passengers.
China is expected to launch its next generation of heavy-duty rockets in 2028 powerful enough to send a crewed spacecraft to the moon, the country’s main space
A new museum dedicated to the history of the mobile phone will launch online next month.
JPMorgan is set to launch its big assault on British high street banks and online lenders from next week, with the launch of its long-planned digital retail bank Chase.
The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos over spaceflight is well known, but the two made nice on Twitter over the Inspiration4 launch.
The launch could occur as early as 8:02 p.m. But the action will begin hours before that.
Four amateur astronauts who have never been to space before are hours away from heading to orbit. Here’s what you need to know.
Here’s what you need to know about the Inspiration4 mission and how to follow it live.
Here’s what you need to know about the three-day orbital journey of four Americans, none of them professional astronauts.
The Inspiration4 mission shows private spaceflight’s promise, but also how far it has to go before just about anyone can travel to orbit.
SpaceX is set to launch the world’s first ever all-civilian mission to orbit on Wednesday evening in Florida, weather permitting.
The first voyage of Firefly Aerospace’s new rocket, named Alpha, ended with an explosion moments after lift-off.
Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth.
