spaceflight

Space agency’s launch provider of choice has been called upon to handle yet another critical mission.

Space station crew members chow down on smoked turkey, shrimp cocktail, candied yams, and other goodies to ring in the holiday from orbit.

Within the next decade, the agency believes its commercial partners can develop vehicles to land a lunar rover and habitat on the moon.

SpaceX aims to increase the number of authorized Starship launches at its Starbase launch pad in Texas from five to 25 per year.

Starship reignites one of its six Raptor engines on orbit for the first time, demonstrating a capability that will come into play during future missions.

It would mark the company’s ninth human spaceflight with its New Shepard rocket, which has flown 43 paying customers and guests to the edge of space.

Largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly could lift off on its sixth test flight as early as Monday at 5 p.m. EST.

Private companies launched or landed on U.S. soil 148 times in fiscal year 2024, a 30 percent increase year over year.

NASA in June tapped the company to build the U.S. deorbit vehicle (DV) that will return the orbital laboratory to Earth in pieces at the end of the decade.

Space agency flatly denies speculation about the Boeing Starliner crewmember’s ‘gaunt’ look, driven by recent photos.