Officials confirmed Tuesday that Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally ready to retry a critical test launch to the International Space Station on May 19. The uncrewed trip, dubbed OFT-2, is an important step toward certifying the spaceship for carrying passengers in the future, providing NASA a second taxi operator to complement SpaceX. Boeing, which was…
A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts, including the first Black woman to join the crew of the International Space Station, docked with the station smoothly Wednesday evening, setting off a five-month mission. After a pre-dawn launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:52 a.m. ET, the astronauts had spent 16 hours circling aboard their…
This weekend, NASA will attempt another vital test of its Artemis 1 lunar mission. Last Friday (April 1), NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida began the Artemis 1 “wet dress rehearsal,” a practise run of the most crucial prelaunch tasks, including rocket fueling. Everything was scheduled to be finished in about 48 hours, but…
The final major test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was called off today due to pressurisation concerns that prohibited technicians from securely loading propellants into the rocket. NASA said on the Artemis I live blog that the test, known as a wet dress rehearsal, has been postponed until at least Monday, April 4th.…
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson revealed Monday that the Biden administration’s budget request for NASA in 2023 is $26 billion, the biggest request for science in the space agency’s history. According to Nelson, the sum is 8% more than the established federal expenditure levels, or the appropriation bill for fiscal year 2022. “Greater than a number,…
A lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, nearly 50 years after it was obtained. It’s one of the remaining samples from the final Apollo mission to land humans on the moon that hasn’t been opened. “We have had an opportunity to open up…
If Congress’s new spending plan is passed, some significant NASA programmes that have been underfunded in recent years may finally receive full funding. NASA’s mission to create a new human lunar lander, as well as a programme to develop new commercial space stations in low Earth orbit, would be fully financed, as requested in the…
NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission could be delayed until the summer. Artemis 1, which would fly an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon using a massive Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, will no longer launch in April, according to agency officials (Feb. 24). May could also be tough to predict. During a virtual news conference…
Next week, a massive asteroid will fly safely by our planet. According to a statement from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) will make its closest approach to our planet on Jan. 18 at 4:51 p.m. EST (2151 GMT). The 3,400-foot…
NASA engineers are spending the day researching the giant James Webb Space Telescope’s power subsystem to ensure the telescope is ready to perform a critical procedure: tensioning its vast sunshield. The Webb space telescope, which launched on Dec. 25, is currently undergoing a month-long deployment operation to ready it for data collection. However, the majority…