The escalating rivalry between the world’s two most powerful countries, which has spread across the globe in recent years, has now expanded beyond the earthly, into the realms of the heavenly. As China has become deeply embroiled in strategic competition with the US – while heading towards outright hostilities with other regional neighbors – Washington’s … 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
Three Chinese taikonauts took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Thursday, taking off after the Tiangong Space Station to replace three long-term crew members which conclude a six-month stay in space. With veteran Ye GuangfuAt the age of 43, the Long March 2F rocket roared smoothly to life at 8:59 … 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
As I push down the red airlock lever and step into our space station, I half wonder: Will I eventually lose my mind and be dragged out? After all, in the current popular television drama For All Mankind, one of the first astronauts to live on the moon for a long period of time does … Read more
Andreas Mogensen was impressed with how smooth the landing was. The first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut (and the first non-American) to serve as a pilot on a US commercial spacecraft, Mogensen and his SpaceX Crew-7 crewmates returned to Earth after a 197-day stay on board from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 12. … Read more
Two days after A rare launch aborted at the last secondA Russian Soyuz spacecraft took off on a flight to the International Space Station on Saturday, carrying two short-term crew members and a NASA astronaut on a six-month mission. Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson thundered … Read more
Snopes Compilation/NASA Claim: A NASA astronaut once surprised his crewmates by wearing a gorilla suit aboard the International Space Station. Judgement: Rating: true Context: Former astronaut twin brothers Mark and Scott Kelly arranged a gorilla suit stunt aboard the International Space Station that the crew members knew about in advance. But it was Scott, not … Read more
A nervous one Jack Hathaway had to overcome one final obstacle before becoming a NASA astronaut candidate: finding the time to hear the news. Hathaway waited in 2021 for a call from NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, then head of the astronaut agency, to find out if he could join the agency. But Hathaway was on … Read more
Scott Kelly recently returned to the International Space Station – during a trip to Berlin. The first American astronaut to spend more than 500 days off the planet, including nearly a year aboard the space station during his fourth and final spaceflight in 2016, Kelly was in Germany when he returned to his exotic home … Read more