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NASA has announced another delay for the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, this time due to a minor medical issue for one of the crew members. In a statement Monday, NASA said it is not a medical emergency and is not COVID-19 related, adding it “takes every effort to protect the crew […]

As I stood on the Textron Aviation ramp in Wichita, Kansas, for my first look at the company’s new turboprop flagship, the King Air 360, I slipped back in time to a different era and form of transportation: cars (muscle cars as they called them). My pal Lennie had just bought a brand-new, fire-engine-red Chevrolet […]

The Innovative Solutions & Support ThrustSense autothrottle for the Beechcraft King Air 200 and 300 series turboprop twins is now approved in more than 40 countries worldwide. The winner of the 2021 Flying Editors’ Choice Award gained supplemental type certificate (STC) approval under EASA and Transport Canada recently, as the company announced this week. “We’re […]

The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is bound for the International Space Station after launching at 3:14 a.m. EDT Sunday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The vessel is carrying more than 4,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and spacecraft hardware. The cargo Dragon, […]

On Saturday, NASA and SpaceX will launch SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch will lift off from Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA will live stream the launch on NASA Television, the NASA app, and their website starting at about 3:15 a.m. ET. […]

NASA and Boeing have decided to postpone the launch of Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as teams continue work on the CST-100 Starliner propulsion system. The mission was to test the end-to-end capabilities of Starliner from launch to docking, atmospheric re-entry, and a desert landing in the western United States. OFT-2 was […]

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft arrived and was installed at the International Space Station on Thursday morning. It was bolted into place on the International Space Station’s Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 9:42 a.m. EDT. Cygnus will remain at the space station for about three months until the spacecraft departs in November. The […]

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is set to arrive at the International Space Station early Thursday morning with more than 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur will use the space station’s robotic Canadarm2 to capture Cygnus upon its arrival. Meanwhile, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet will monitor […]