The launch of two astronauts on a Boeing commercial spacecraft will be a first for the company, but will also return American human spaceflight to a rocket and launch site that hasn’t been used by crews in more than 50 years. The Crew Flight Test (CFT) for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule is ready to fly … Read more
If all goes well, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast into space late on May 6, 2024 on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. This final crucial test for Starliner, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, will test the new spacecraft and take the pair to the International Space Station for about a week. This … Read more
Two veteran astronauts flew to the Kennedy Space Center Thursday afternoon to prepare for the first pilot launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, a highly anticipated flight that has been years in the making behind schedule after two unmanned test flights and extensive work to solve a variety of technical problems. Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and … Read more
This month, Junipero Serra High School in Gardena held a pep rally to celebrate the achievements of what may be the least conventional team: the Advanced Space Team. Seniors Isaiah Dunn, Christopher Holbert, Travis Leonard, Anderson Pecot and Henry Toler, junior Keith Davie and freshman Jonathan Cruz led their classmates through the 3D printing experiment … Read more
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
SpaceX is counting down to launch its first astronaut flight of 2024 and you can watch it take off live online, but you need to know where and when to look. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA during the Crew-8 mission. The launch is … Read more
Four new astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Friday as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Crew-8the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will launch on March 1 at 12:04 a.m. EST (0504 GMT). Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor spacecraft, located atop a Falcon 9 … Read more
Space Perspective to take on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic – Spaceperspective.com Founded in 2019, Space Perspective plans to send tourists to the edge of Earth’s upper atmosphere in a capsule propelled by a high-altitude balloon the size of the Statue of Liberty. Space Perspective says its views will be similar to those of passengers … Read more
SpaceX readied a Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Wednesday to send a commercially built robotic lander to the moon, the first targeted landing near the moon’s south pole where NASA’s Artemis astronauts plan to orbit in a few years . The flight comes just five weeks after another American company’s attempt to land a … Read more
Houston-based Axiom Space is poised for the company’s third private astronaut launch to space. Ax-3 will carry a four-person, all-European crew on an approximately two-week mission to conduct research aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The quartet consists of Ax-3 mission commander and former NASA astronaut Michael “LA” López-Alegría, mission specialist Walter Villadeiwho also flew … Read more