Tag: Astronaut
SpaceX launches Crew-7 astronaut mission for NASA
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on top is seen after sunset at Launch Complex 39A ahead of the launch of the Crew-7 [...]
India Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission lands on moon’s south pole
India staked new claim as a national superpower in space on Wednesday, landing its Chandrayaan-3 mission safely on the moon's unexplored south pole.Th [...]
Astronaut Peggy Whitson talks Axiom mission, making space accessible
Peggy Whitson is America's most experienced astronaut, having spent 675 days in space. She's just returned from her fourth flight to orbit. Axiom Spac [...]
Boeing further delays first Starliner astronaut mission for NASA
Boeing employees work on the company's Starliner capsule on Jan. 19, 2023, in preparation for the first crew flight test.John Grant / BoeingBoeing is [...]
Hilton partners with Voyager Starlab to design astronaut suites
Concept art of a "Starlab" space stationNanoracksPARIS — Hotel giant Hilton has signed on to design astronaut facilities for the private space station [...]
NASA awards SpaceX $1.4 billion in contracts for 5 more astronaut missions
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Crew Dragon capsule, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on [...]
Boeing Starliner astronaut capsule charges near $700 million
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is seen before docking with the International Space Station on May 20, 2022 during the uncrewed OFT-2 mission.NASABoeing [...]
SpaceX NASA Crew-3 mission, 6th astronaut flight, splashes down
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule Endurance splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida on May 6, 2022.NASA TVSpaceX returned the a [...]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches NASA Crew-4 astronaut mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom launches the Crew-4 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida [...]
Who Can Be Called an Astronaut? The F.A.A. Will No Longer Say.
Jeff Bezos is officially an astronaut. Really — just ask the federal government.The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it was endi [...]
Watch SpaceX and NASA’s Crew-3 astronaut launch livestream
[The webcast is scheduled to begin at 4:45 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the player above.]Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning to l [...]
SpaceX Crew-3 astronaut launch for NASA: What you should know
The SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts stand on the transporter in front of the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 stack inside the SpaceX horizontal processing facili [...]
NASA delays astronaut moon landing to 2025
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks at a press briefing at the Kennedy Space Center in advance of the launch of the Boeing Starliner Orbital Flig [...]
SpaceX COVID-19 research, Elon Musk author: First astronaut launch
NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley rehearses putting on his SpaceX spacesuit in the Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and [...]
SpaceX may make new astronaut spacesuits for NASA
Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA's Johnson Area Middle, wears a floor prototype of the brand new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Un [...]