Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft sits atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography
Officials scrubbed the planned launch of a Boeing-built crew capsule Tuesday to examine a potential technical issue in the spacecraft’s propulsion system, delaying the start of a critical unpiloted test flight to prove the ship is ready to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.
At 27 inches in length and 500 Galactic Credits ($350) in price, this would make the ultimate "Star Wars" shrine.
Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi will have to wait to launch ... again.
Methods of movement for robotic explorers of other worlds have been as varied as the worlds themselves. Some missions have been simple landers, some rovers, and now there’s even been a helicopter flight on Mars. But there is an unexplored hybrid mode of movement that will soon be coming to a Moon near you – hopping. NASA just granted an additional $41.6 million to support development of a hopping lunar lander that will explore the inside of craters that are permanently in shadow.
If asked to pick what color asteroids in the asteroid belt would be, red is likely not one that would come to mind for most people. But that is exactly the color of two new asteroids found by Hasegawa Sunao of JAXA and an international team of researchers. The catch is the objects don’t appear to be from the asteroid belt at all, but are most likely Trans-Neptunian objects that were somehow transported into what is commonly thought of as the asteroid belt. How exactly they got there is still up for debate.
Image: This map generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows the temperature of the land surface on 2 August 2021.
If Earth abruptly stopped spinning, what would happen to everything on it?
Astronauts are eager to see Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launch to space today (Aug. 3), despite issues with the capsule's previous uncrewed spaceflight.
One estimate suggests that 13 billion tons (12 metric tons) of ice made its way into the ocean on a single day.
Madness, mayhem, heroics and hijinks — fans of "Lower Decks" have plenty to look forward to.
Globally, nights are becoming ever brighter.
MTV celebrated its 40th year on the air by revealing a new look for its iconic Video Music Awards (VMA) trophy at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
A Boeing Starliner crew capsule stands on top of an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: United Launch Alliance
An Atlas 5 rocket was hauled back to its seaside firing stand Monday for launch Tuesday on a flight to boost Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule into orbit for a second unpiloted test to prove the commercial ferry ship is ready to carry astronauts.
Last week, two companies teamed up to beam a recording of Debussy's piano masterpiece "Clair de Lune" to and from the International Space Station, then minted the file as a non-fungible token (NFT).
Russia’s Nauka module, at left, docked with the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Playing it safe, the seven-member crew of the International Space Station moved into the U.S. segment of the outpost Friday, closed hatches and window shutters and stood by while Russian flight controllers vented helium pressurization lines in the newly arrived Nauka lab module.
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A Russian module accidentally pushed the International Space Station out of place. Now, a NASA flight director has revealed that the event was even more serious than initially reported.
Two spacecraft are heading for a close Venus encounter: Solar Orbiter passes by on August 9th and BepiColombo on August 10th.
SpaceX has made significant strides toward the planned first orbital test flight of its Starship system, installing engines on the giant first-stage booster known as Super Heavy.
Billions of years ago, a slowdown in Earth's rotation period lengthened days and offered photosynthesizing bacteria the chance to release more oxygen, transforming the planet.
Starliner rolled out to Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for the second time this morning (Aug. 2).
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