Space

For more than 50 years, the beloved Charles Schulz cartoon character has served as NASA’s mascot of the manned spaceflight program.

The effort aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus capsule is expected to launch Saturday at 11:28 a.m. EDT.

The Boeing spacecraft was supposed to remain at the International Space Station for eight days but has seen its stay extended to nearly two months.

The regulator on Thursday said the vehicle is safe to return to action, including upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 and Polaris Dawn missions in August.

No existing spacecraft meets the propulsive needs of the U.S. deorbit vehicle, which will bring the International Space Station back to Earth.

New Zealand manufacturer Dawn Aerospace is developing ‘an aircraft with the performance of a rocket’ for suborbital space transportation.

Following the mishap, Elon Musk said the satellite software was being updated ‘to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9.’

NASA’s CHAPEA program seeks to prepare astronauts for future missions to the Red Planet and beyond.

For the first time since arriving at the International Space Station on June 6, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spoke to the media.

NEOWISE has taken millions of infrared measurements and studied tens of thousands of asteroids, comets, stars, galaxies, and other objects.