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1:45pm, 3rd April, 2019

Uncrewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi delayed; crewed flight to be extended

Technicians at the Boeing Space Environment Test Facility in El Segundo, Calif., position a Starliner spaceship inside an acoustic test chamber. (Boeing Photo) NASA today confirmed that the first uncrewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi...

2:16am, 15th March, 2019

Space

Months after aborted flight, U.S.-Russian crew makes smooth trip to space station

A Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin finally made it to...

NASA considers shifting a key test flight beyond the moon to commercial rockets

11:55am, 13th March, 2019

Space

NASA considers shifting a key test flight beyond the moon to commercial rockets

An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Orion deep-space crew capsule with its European Service Module placed beneath it and an upper stage powering it out of Earth orbit. (NASA Illustration) NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a Senate hearing today...

3:20am, 2nd March, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship makes maiden flight with robo-rider named Ripley

Onlookers take pictures at SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket rises from its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Floridal. (SpaceX / NASA via YouTube) SpaceX’s Crew Dragon was sent into space atop a Falcon 9 rocket tonight, beginning a crucial test of...

Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on Mars

2:49pm, 11th February, 2019

Tech

Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on Mars

(University of Illinois College of Engineering) The heaviest vehicle to successfully land on Mars is the Curiosity Rover at 1 metric ton, about 2,200 pounds. Sending more ambitious robotic missions to the surface of Mars, and eventually humans, will...

Virgin Orbit jet aces its first captive-carry flight with LauncherOne rocket attached

12:41pm, 19th November, 2018

Space

Virgin Orbit jet aces its first captive-carry flight with LauncherOne rocket attached

Virgin Orbit’s 70-foot-long LauncherOne rocket is hooked beneath the left wing of the modified 747 jet known as Cosmic Girl during the first captive-carry flight. (Virgin Orbit Photo) modified Boeing 747 jet, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, has made its firs...

Caught on video: Virgin Orbit jet spotted on first captive-carry flight including rocket

8:42pm, 18th November, 2018

Space

Caught on video: Virgin Orbit jet spotted on first captive-carry flight including rocket

A photo taken in October shows Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl jet on the runway with a LauncherOne rocket tucked beneath its left wing. (Virgin Orbit Photo) modified Boeing 747 jet, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, was spotted today taking off from California’s V...

Paul Allen’s giant Stratolaunch plane gets closer to first flight with 80 mph taxi test

10:47pm, 11th October, 2018

Space

Paul Allen’s giant Stratolaunch plane gets closer to first flight with 80 mph taxi test

Mountains loom in the distance as Stratolaunch Systems’ twin-fuselage airplane is taken out for testing at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port. (Stratolaunch Photo via Twitter) The world’s biggest airplane, built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen...

6:16am, 6th October, 2018

Space

Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations) NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tes...

8:18pm, 13th September, 2018

Space

SpaceX gets set to reveal its first customer for BFR flight around the moon and back

News Brief: A year and a half after saying it, SpaceX says it will reveal the first passenger’s identity on Monday. SpaceX said the mission would be “an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space.” The l...

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Uncrewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi delayed; crewed flight to be extended

Months after aborted flight, U.S.-Russian crew makes smooth trip to space station

NASA considers shifting a key test flight beyond the moon to commercial rockets

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship makes maiden flight with robo-rider named Ripley

Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on Mars

Virgin Orbit jet aces its first captive-carry flight with LauncherOne rocket attached

Caught on video: Virgin Orbit jet spotted on first captive-carry flight including rocket

Paul Allen’s giant Stratolaunch plane gets closer to first flight with 80 mph taxi test

Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019

SpaceX gets set to reveal its first customer for BFR flight around the moon and back

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