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How did America respond to the Soviet Union’s space dominance? The Mercury Rocket was supposed to put the U.S. ahead, but despite its early victories, it was quickly replaced. Why? Find out the ...
Witness the long-awaited liftoff of Boeing's Starliner, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the ISS ...
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson and Polish astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski pose for a picture ahead of the Axiom Space Ax-4 ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a Crew Dragon capsule from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. The Ax-4 mission is the fourth private spaceflight for the Houston-based ...
On June 24, 1999, NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained enough momentum during the encounter to slingshot out ...
The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.
SpaceX launched 70 different payloads — including a special memorial capsule carrying cremated remains and DNA samples — today (June 23) on the Transporter 14 rideshare mission.
A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company's upcoming mission to return a ...
Bezos himself even boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard for its maiden crewed voyage in July 2021, which came after the spacecraft flew on 15 flight tests beginning in 2012. For nearly four years ...
Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11.
A few days later, the orbiting spacecraft reached a viewing angle of 17 degrees. All pre-existing images of the sun were taken from within about 7 degrees of its equator.
Shijan-21 then towed the satellite to a graveyard orbit above GEO. China, US battle for space dominance China’s satellite operation will be closely observed by two US surveillance spacecraft.