Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2021 - A Japanese billionaire returned to Earth Monday, after 12 days on the International Space Station where he made videos about performing mundane tasks including brushing teeth and going to the bathroom.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 - NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency's SpaceX Crew-6 mission - the sixth crew rotation flight aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. NASA ast
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 19, 2021 - SpaceX launched a communications satellite from Florida overnight Saturday for the Turkish company Turksat.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 19, 2021 - After a decade-long hiatus, Russia is relaunching an ambitious bid for dominion over the world's budding space tourism industry, jostling with zealous billionaires, the United States, and rising China.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 18, 2021 - U.S. launch and space systems company Rocket Lab called off its Sunday evening liftoff of its first Electron rocket mission from the United States over upper-level high winds.
Paris (ESA) Dec 17, 2021 - ESA's Vega-C launch vehicle will fly in the second quarter of 2022 offering more performance to all orbits and extended mission flexibility at a similar cost to the current Vega. A new contract aims
Jiuquan (XNA) Dec 17, 2021 - The launch of a pair of GeeSAT commercial satellites, carried by a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket, was unsuccessful, the launch center said in a statement Wednesday. Abnormal performance was detec
Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 - NASA conducted a successful full-duration test Dec. 15 to begin a new series of testing for state-of-the-art RS-25 engines to help power the agency's Space Launch System (SLS), America's new deep-sp
New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 - NASA has completed assembly of the upper, or forward, part of the core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send the Artemis II crew on their lunar mission. Boeing, the lead core
Paris (ESA) Dec 17, 2021 - On Saturday 11 December, the James Webb Space Telescope was placed on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. After its arrival in the
Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2021 - China launched a relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China early on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's major
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 - NASA has selected Axiom Space for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. NASA will negotiate with Axiom on a mission order agreement for the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2)
Lynchburg VA (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 - BWX Technologies, Inc. has reached a critical milestone in the nation's pursuit of space nuclear propulsion by delivering coated reactor fuels to NASA in support of its space nuclear propulsion proj
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 13, 2021 - NASA will start hot fire testing for the production of new RS-25 engines that will power future Artemis missions to the Moon, and eventually Mars.
Launch Site One, United States (AFP) Dec 11, 2021 - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is set to blast its third private crew to space on Saturday, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut.
Launch Site One, United States (AFP) Dec 11, 2021 - Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company blasted its third private crew to space on Saturday, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut.
