human spaceflight

Company’s New Shepard rocket launches celebrities and four others to the edge of space and back.

Questions remain about the Shift4 CEO and civilian astronaut’s priorities for the space agency.

International four-person crew returns after nearly four days flying a 90-degree polar orbit and observing Earth’s poles from orbit for the first time.

Commercial mission plans to observe Earth’s poles from low-Earth orbit for the first time and complete 22 research experiments, among other objectives.

NASA is considering flying the capsule without a crew on its next test flight.

NASA targets Tuesday at 5:57 p.m. for the return of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew to the ISS on Boeing Starliner’s inaugural crew flight test.

Wednesday launch attempt was scrubbed due to a hydraulic system issue on the ground, postponing NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission.

Arrival of new space station occupants will allow Starliner’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return home.

NS-30 mission sends crew of six—including four pilots, according to Blue Origin—to the edge of space and back.

Resignations of leaders associated with the Artemis program come as speculation swirls around the space agency’s plans for the moon and Mars.