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Historic private astronaut mission ends with splashdown off Florida
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
The Dragon spacecraft plunged into the ocean at 3:37 am (0737 GMT), a webcast of the arrival showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to ...
Historic private astronaut mission splashes down off Florida
Sep 15, 2024 (AFP)
The Dragon spacecraft landed in the ocean at 3:37 am (0737 GMT), a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to ...
Historic private astronaut mission prepares for splashdown
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
Splashdown is scheduled to take place at approximately 3:36 am Eastern Time (0736 GMT) off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida. A live webcast will be carried by...
Boeing 'ran out of time' on Starliner: astronaut stuck on ISS
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
Last week, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams watched the Boeing Starliner they rode to the ISS three months prior head back to Earth without them...
SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew complete first private spacewalk
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, led by fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman, launched early Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, journeying deeper i...
SpaceX makes history with first spacewalks by private citizens
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, led by fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman, launched Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, journeying deeper into th...
SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew set for historic private spacewalk
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, led by fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman, launched early Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, reaching a peak alt...
LandSpace moves closer to reusable rocket capability with successful landing test
Sep 12, 2024 (SPX)
The Beijing-based company used an experimental rocket for the test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China. In this test...
Polaris Dawn reaches 870 miles above Earth; as crew preps for first private EVA
Sep 11, 2024 (UPI)
It marked the farthest orbit of Earth since the Gemini missions during the Apollo era. The private space mission, paid for by billionaire Jared Isaacman reached...
Reusable spacecraft returns to Earth after 268-day mission
Sep 11, 2024 (SPX)
The spacecraft was launched on December 14 aboard a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan. Its mission focused on verifying reusable technology and conducting space...
SpaceX successfully launches all-civilian crew for historic private spacewalk
Sep 10, 2024 (AFP)
The crew, led by Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Iscaacman, is also aiming to fly deeper into space than any other manned mission in more than half a century, reachin...
SpaceX launches all-civilian crew for first private spacewalk
Sep 10, 2024 (AFP)
Led by Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, the four-member crew aims to journey farther into the cosmos than any other manned mission in more than half a centur...
Private astronauts on daring trek ahead of historic spacewalk
Sep 10, 2024 (AFP)
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, led by Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman, launched early morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and attained its pea...
Boeing's beleaguered Starliner returns home without astronauts
Sep 07, 2024 (AFP)
After years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission -- a final shakedown before it could be certified to ...
Boeing's troubled Starliner spaceship to return to Earth sans crew
Sep 06, 2024 (AFP)
The century-old aerospace giant's reputation has taken a hammering over thruster malfunctions and helium leaks its spaceship encountered on its way up to the or...
NASA prepares for Boeing Starliner's uncrewed return to Earth
Sep 05, 2024 (UPI)
NASA on Thursday issued a timeline and a set of criteria for the Starliner's departure from the ISS and return to Earth. The space capsule has faced a host of i...
Europe's Vega rocket launches in French Guiana
Sep 05, 2024 (AFP)
Delayed by a day due to "electrical issues on the ground links", according to French firm Arianespace, the launch in Kourou finally took place at 10:50 pm (0150...
Benchmark awarded Air Force Research Lab contract to scale ascent-fueled thrusters
Sep 05, 2024 (SPX)
ASCENT (Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic), developed by AFRL, is a next-generation spacecraft monopropellant that surpasses hydrazine in various mission ...
Rocket Lab confirms launch date for second Kineis IoT constellation mission
Sep 05, 2024 (SPX)
Following just three months after the 'No Time Toulouse' mission, this will be the second of five planned launches for Kineis, which is backed by both private a...
MIT team wins grand prize at First Nations launch competition
Sep 05, 2024 (SPX)
The eight-student team of all Indigenous students earned the compatition's grand prize, as well as first place in the written portion. Deploying a drone from a ...
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