NASA plans to send the ISS into Earth's atmosphere in 2030, and it has no plans for a replacement — at least, not directly. In 1979, NASA's first space station, Skylab, fell to Earth. The intention ...
WASHINGTON — The chief executive of commercial space station developer Vast says he supports NASA’s revised approach to supporting development of such stations, calling it the best way to avoid a gap ...
Working from computer screens in chilly rooms, the force has emerged as a vital part of America’s war machine amid increased competition from China and Russia. It looked more like a satellite ...
The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars. By Kenneth Chang ...
Just off the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway, the hotel’s rooftop bar is open late. The bartender passes out shots and turns Ozzy up. It’s 11:37 pm on a hot July night in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when ...
This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...
It looked more like a satellite television dish than a weapon. But the antenna could fire enough electromagnetic energy to fry the satellite 22,000 miles away. That was not the plan for tonight’s ...
Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, ...
NASA is no longer just going back to the Moon - it’s planning to stay there. The Lunar Gateway will be a small space station orbiting the Moon, serving as a research hub, transfer point, and safe ...
Californian company Vast is building what would be the world’s first commercial space station, which it aims to launch next ...
The upgraded Cygnus spacecraft is carrying more than 5 tons of equipment and supplies, including holiday food for the lab's ...
SpaceX lent a hand to fellow commercial cargo company Northrop Grumman once again with a launch Sunday evening on the Space Coast to send supplies to the International Space Station. A Falcon 9 rocket ...