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Moscow, Feb 10: NASA said in a statement it was considering obtaining an extra seat on the Soyuz spring mission for its astronaut to fly to the

NASA introduces new class of flight directors FacebookTwitterEmail NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control White Flight Control Room on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, in Houston.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer NASA has selected four new flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station, the agency announced. These individuals join an elite group of 101 people who have worked in Houstons Mission Control Center leading flight controllers, engineers...

Humanity has entered the era when space exploration is no longer achieved through government-backed hardware alone. We already have a privately-made spacecraft taking people to the International Space Station, and if all goes well, a second one will be joining it soon.

SpaceX will also attempt a series of static fire tests. Static fire tests are a form of wet rehearsal during which Starships three Raptor engines are fire while the rocket is still tethered to the ground. Starship is the upper stage of SpaceXs multi-planetary launch vehicle, known collectively as Starship. The spacecraft will launch from Earth on top of the Super Heavy booster rocket on missions to the Moon, Mars and possibly beyond. According to SpaceX, Starship will be the worlds most powerfu...

Starship SN10 launch date: Prelaunch testing expected soon after fiery crash of SN9 Sebastian Kettley Replay Video UP NEXT Starship SN10 rolled out onto the launch pad last week, just days before the delayed test flight of Starship Serial Number 9 (SN9). SN10 is the latest iteration of the next-gen spacecraft that will, hopefully, one day land humans on Mars. Starship SN9 launched on a 6.2-mile (10km) hop this Tuesday - SpaceXs second high-altitude test flight - but failed to s...

Media Invited to Cover Prelaunch and Launch Activities for Boeing’s OFT-2 Boeing’s Starliner crew module for the company’s second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) is lifted Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to the vehicle having a weight and center of gravity test. Photo credit: Boeing/John Grant Media accreditation now is open for prelaunch and launch activities for NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT...

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By the end of the second decade of the 21st century, over 500 people, coming from 40 different countries and more than 10 percent of whom were women, had flown in space. As of that same time, only the United States, Russia, and China had the capability of carrying out human spaceflights. With the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, the United States lost its independent human spaceflight capability. Such capability would not be regained until new private commercial spacecraft were r...

NASA targets April 20 to send next round of astronauts into space By FOX 35 News Staff Published  NASA is targeting April 20 to send the next round of astronauts into space. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA and SpaceX are aiming for no earlier than April 20 for the launch of the second crew rotation mission with astronauts into space.  NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission will launch four astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. It will be the f...

Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS A $55 million orbital vacation Share this story An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor, and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private astronaut crew to journey to the International Space Station. The trio will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule early next year, with a veteran NASA astronaut as the commander. The Ax-1 mission, arranged by Hou...