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Boeing aims for unmanned Starliner test flight in first half of 2022
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
The CST-100 had been scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 3 but the flight was aborted just hours b...
Humidity caused corrosion of Starliner capsule valves, Boeing, NASA say
Oct 19, 2021 (UPI)
The capsule, already four years behind schedule at a development cost of $4.6 billion, may not be launched again until early 2022 as the valve investigation con...
Russians return to Earth after filming first movie in space
Oct 17, 2021 (AFP)
Yulia Peresild, 37, and Klim Shipenko, 38, landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by Russia's Roscosmos spa...
Russia's Soyuz spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan after ISS mission
Oct 17, 2021 (UPI)
The capsule landed at 10:35 a.m. Kazakhstan time, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, according to NASA. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos ...
Russian rocket tests briefly destabilise space station
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
Russia's Roscosmos space agency said the incident happened during tests of the engines of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft set to return a Russian actress and filmmak...
US firm sees 'exciting' moment as space tourism booms
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
The US-based company Space Adventures and Russia are counting down to December when they are set to send Japanese online retail tycoon Yusaku Maezawa to the Int...
Crew-4 astronauts splash down after 170 days in space
Oct 14, 2021 (UPI)
Splashdown occurred at 4:55 p.m. EDT after NASA and Space X mission controllers canceled the attempt Thursday due to weather concerns in the recovery area off J...
Prince William tells space tourists: fix Earth instead
Oct 14, 2021 (AFP)
The comments by Queen Elizabeth II's grandson were airing in a BBC interview later Thursday, a day after "Star Trek" star William Shatner became a real space tr...
Blue Origin launches William Shatner, TV's Captain Kirk, into space and back
Oct 13, 2021 (UPI)
Shatner, 90, becomes the oldest person ever to reach space. The New Shepard rocket that carried the crew lifted off into a mostly sunny sky at 10:50 a.m. EDT fr...
What a blast: The rush of amateur astronauts
Oct 13, 2021 (AFP)
- Beam me up, Bezos - Shatner went where no 90-year-old has gone before aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket. The Canadian became the oldest per...
'It was unbelievable': Star Trek's Shatner becomes real life astronaut
Oct 13, 2021 (AFP)
"It was unbelievable," said the 90-year-old Canadian, known to the sci-fi show's legion of "Trekkies" as the daring Captain James T. Kirk, a role he first playe...
Next-generation spacesuits on drawing board for NASA moon mission
Oct 12, 2021 (UPI)
The suit, originally developed for Space Shuttle missions that started in 1981, has been upgraded through the years, but has far outlasted its original 15-year ...
NASA announces astronaut changes for upcoming Commercial Crew Missions
Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)
Crew-5 is expected to launch no earlier than fall 2022 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The duo and their...
Interstellar research group holds their 7th annual symposium
Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)
This event featured numerous presentations with a range of out of this world topics, from black hole bomb beams to the effects that space has on physiological p...
Can we ever be safe in space
Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)
There is a long list of dangers associated with space that are impossible to deny. Space is a vacuum in which oxygen and protection from extreme temperatures mu...
Thomas Pesquet takes commanding role on Space Station
Oct 07, 2021 (ESA)
Thomas officially accepted his new position during a traditional ceremony, broadcast live from the International Space Station, where a symbolic handover of a k...
Russian actress, director enter space station to film movie
Oct 06, 2021 (UPI)
The newcomers came aboard the space station just after 11 a.m. EDT. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who piloted the Soyuz spacecraft, entered first, followed by act...
Russian crew blast off to film first movie in space
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's Spac...
Russian crew arrives at space station to film first movie in orbit
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's Spac...
Russian crew set to blast off to film first movie in space
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
If successful, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon M...
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