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Update (1019ET): "Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!" Musk wrote in a post on X.
A successful launch and re-entry
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit on the first crewed flight test aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft bound for the International Space Station.
The fourth flight test of Starship is targeted to launch Thursday, June 6 from Starbase in Texas. The 120-minute test window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT.
After a month-long journey, a Chinese spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration said.
"Chang'e-6 will probably collect lunar samples from various sources, including products of local volcanic activity. Dating and compositional analysis..."
The seventh annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year collection has been released, featuring ever more stunning shots of our home galaxy, contrasted against our home planet. This year's gallery is sure to inspire awe and just a touch of existentia
SPACE JAM China's super secretive spaceplane ejects a mysterious object into orbit over Earth and no-one knows what it's for
The stunning alignment will occur just before sunrise on June 3, 2024. During the solar spectacle, the orbits of Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, and Saturn will bring the six planets to the same side of the sun.
SpaceX will try to launch on June 5, 2024 if they get FAA approval. Elon and SpaceX are communicating the June 5th date as if the FAA is close to giving the launch license.
The world's first winged commercial spaceplane has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, its final destination before its first mission to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is reportedly discussing with investors and insiders to sell existing shares, potentially valuing the company at nearly $200 billion.
SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, will probably have its fourth flight "in about two weeks," Elon Musk wrote on X.
Blue Origin has a mission scheduled for Sunday, while Virgin Galactic is expected to go suborbital two weeks later. In the meantime, SpaceX is inviting public enquiries for missions to the moon and Mars.
The crew includes the United States' 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, who never made it to space.
More delays?
Dyson spheres, megastructures that could be constructed by advanced civilizations to harness the radiation energy of their host stars, represent a potential technosignature, that in principle may be hiding in public data already collected as part of
"Objective is for the ship to get past max heating, or at least further than last time."
Back in the early 1990s, Dave Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, had an intellectual itch he couldn't quite scratch. His specialty was finding and mapping asteroids?"he had even served on an early "detection committee" that NA
It was set to be the world's first flight test for an aerospike rocket engine, but the MIRA I prototype crashed on takeoff before the most innovative part of its propulsion system could fire.
Starship's fourth test flight hasn't happened yet, but SpaceX is already gearing up for launch number five.
Chang'e-6 spacecraft's payoff could be historic.
Elon Musk discusses the future of humanity with Michael Milken, touching on topics such as birth rates, the most impactful factors shaping our future, and his vision of a multiplanetary species.
Update (2120ET): Its not been a great day for Boeing.
Building a base on the Moon and a city on Mars will require millions of spacesuits.
Starliner will rocket to space on Monday (May 6), if all goes according to plan.
The company has not yet identified the crewmembers of its Galactic 07 mission.
Instead of 12 hours to anywhere on the planet, imagine the time it takes to order and deliver a pizza!
