SpaceX statement: We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and…
An uncrewed Russian spacecraft meant to resupply the International Space Station appears to have suffered a malfunction shortly after launch today. Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, said that it lost communication with the spacecraft 383 seconds into the flight. The third stage of the rocket, which helps propel the cargo ship to its final orbit, reportedly shut…
The first spacecraft to orbit a comet will soon meet a dramatic end. At 10:40 GMT on September 30, a robotic pioneer will go from dust to dust: The European Space Agency is intentionally crash-landing its Rosetta spacecraft. Launched in March 2004, Rosetta arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on August 6, 2014, after a decade of…
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The images were taken on 2 September by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera as the orbiter came within 2.7 km of the surface and clearly show the main body of…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Cape Canaveral today. It was carrying Facebook’s $95 million satellite that was going to beam Internet to poor parts of the world as part of the company’s Internet.org project.
NASA Television will provide complete coverage Tuesday, March 1, as three crew members depart the International Space Station, including NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos – the station’s first one-year crew. NASA Television coverage will begin at 21:15 (UTC). Complete coverage is as follows: Tuesday, March 1 21:15 (UTC)…
13 years ago today, STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program and the disastrous 28th mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003, and during its 15 days 22 hours, 20 minutes, 32 seconds in orbit conducted a multitude of international scientific…
30 years ago today, STS-51-L was the 25th flight of the Space Shuttle program and the disastrous 10th mission of Space Shuttle Challenger. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 28, 1986. Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the first time on mission STS-6 on April 4, 1983. It launched and landed…
