Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will take off tonight for its first piloted test flight

An Atlas 5 rocket transporting astronauts for the first time in six decades was ready for an explosion on Monday night to give a boost Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner crew ferry launched into orbit for its first piloted test flight to the International Space Station. The Starliner is years behind schedule and over a billion dollars … Read more

SpaceX launches Crew-8 astronaut mission to the International Space Station for NASA (video)

SpaceX launched another crew of four to the International Space Station this evening (March 3). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off tonight at 10:53 PM EST (0353 GMT on March 4) carrying the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida . The … Read more