NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg hold a briefing joined by UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev before the next Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station. NTD will livestream the event at 1:45 p.m. ET on Jan. 25.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Wednesday, bringing the United States a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago. If all goes well during the three-week […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida. Wet and windy weather across Florida delayed their homecoming. SpaceX and NASA finally gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three Americans and one Italian departed the International […]
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to the Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday where she put a call out to space. This was part of NASA’s meeting of the National Space Council. The vice president used a phone to call three astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbiting 260 miles above Earth.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires. It’s the first NASA crew comprised equally of men and women, including the first Black woman making a long-term spaceflight, Jessica Watkins. “This is one of the most diversified, […]
The Chinese communist regime is planning the next step in its space development efforts. Beijing is set to launch three more astronauts into space this June—they’ll dock at China’s newest space station. The station’s latest crew just returned to Earth last weekend—following a six-month stay in orbit.
Four astronauts safely returned on Monday from a record six-month NASA science mission aboard the International Space Station, splashing down with their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of a daylong flight home. The Dragon vehicle, dubbed Endeavour, parachuted into the sea off the Florida coast as planned just […]
Chinese astronauts are now aboard the country’s new space station after launching earlier this week. The mission’s commander is a veteran air force pilot in China’s infamous People’s Liberation Army. Does this move give China a strategic military advantage over the United States? Space and national security expert Brandon Weichert says it does because China […]
