NASA's Jeanette Epps waited 6 years for her space mission | NASA tests Starship docking system for moon missions | SpaceX to launch Crew-8 to the ISS March 2: Watch live
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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps had an unusual path to space: She waited an extra six years to fly. Epps will finally fly to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Saturday night (March 2) on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission for NASA, performing the second long-duration mission by a Black woman on the orbiting complex. But Epps was supposed to get there as soon as June 2018; that timeline was delayed twice, following reassignments from Russia's Soyuz and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center spent 10 days using hardware from the Starship lander and NASA's Orion orbiter (designed by Lockheed Martin) at "various approach angles and speeds," NASA officials said in a release. "These real-world results, using full-scale hardware, will validate computer models of the moon lander's docking system," agency officials wrote.
The crew members' spacecraft, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavor, will ride atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is currently scheduled for no earlier than Saturday, March 2 at 11:19 p.m. EST (0419 GMT on March 3). Liftoff had been scheduled for early Friday morning (March 1), but bad weather forced a delay.
The space station has a leak at the aft end of the Russian module where the nation's Progress spacecraft dock to the orbital lab, but there is "no impact to crew."
Astronomers have discovered that a planet-birthing disk of gas and dust that surrounds an infant star is drenched with enough water to fill Earth's oceans three times over.
SpaceX lofted a new batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Feb. 29) in a Leap Day launch that came after the company delayed its first astronaut launch of the year.
A little bit of magic landed on the moon last week - or actually, quite a lot of it. Aboard Intuitive Machines' robotic Odysseus lunar lander, which last Thursday (Feb. 22) became the first American spacecraft since 1972 to touch down on the moon, are the archives of magician David Copperfield.
It's been a long and somewhat bumpy road for Paramount Plus' "Star Trek: Discovery" since it first touched down on the streaming platform back in 2017 as the first "Star Trek" small screen enterprise in 12 years. It's taken a couple of seasons to moderate its tone and style but it seems on track to bring it all home safely starting on April 4, to stick the landing and satiate most temperamental fans.
Dana Weigel will be the 1st female ISS program manager | Odysseus sends back more photos from moon landing | Free solar filter with purchase of Unistellar telescope
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NASA's Dana Weigel was named incoming permanent program manager for the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday (Feb. 26), succeeding Joel Montalbano. As Weigel takes office on April 7, she will become the first woman to serve in the role.
Odysseus touched down about 190 miles (300 kilometers) from the moon's south pole on Thursday (Feb. 22), becoming the first private spacecraft ever to land softly on Earth's nearest neighbor - and the first American vehicle to do since since the final Apollo mission in 1972. We just got a fresh look at Odysseus' epic descent, thanks to three new photos from Intuitive Machines.
The free smart solar filter that comes with a telescope of your choice from Unistellar's website allows you to view the solar eclipse on April 8 safely. We strongly recommend using safe solar equipment to view the eclipse and of course, once the eclipse is over, you will still have a top piece of kit so you can have great views of the stars and beyond. Plus, you can safely observe the sun during the day without running the risk of damaging the telescope or its sensitive image sensor.
Between Saturday (Feb. 24) and Monday (Feb. 26), as the sunspot known as AR3590 turned toward Earth, it also grew by around 25% to become the largest sunspot of the current 11-year solar cycle, solar cycle 25, measuring around 9.5 times the surface area of Earth.
After spending more than three days inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule during his most recent mission, a private astronaut says he'd gladly jump in again.
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an effect predicted by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago to discover that small galaxies in the early cosmos packed a massive punch, shaping the entire universe when it was less than 1 billion years old.
SpaceX just notched another milestone ahead of its next astronaut mission. The company announced Tuesday (Feb. 27) that it had conducted a static fire test with the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA. Static fires are common prelaunch trials in which a rocket's engines are ignited briefly while the vehicle is anchored to the pad.
Scientists have discovered that a potentially habitable planet is having its atmosphere stripped, a process that may eventually render the world, Trappist-1e, inhospitable to life. The stripping appears to be caused by electric currents created as the planet races around its red dwarf host star.
