The two astronauts blasting off today to the International Space Station in the first such voyage since 2011 are best friends who both married fellow astronauts. Bob Behnken, 49, from Saint Ann, Missouri, and Doug Hurley, 53, from Apalachin, New York, are at the helm of SpaceX’s first ever crewed spaceflight. The pair are due … Read more
Britons will be able to see a rocket hurtle across the sky at 9.50pm tonight as it heads for the International Space Station. The Falcon 9, the first manned space flight to leave US soil in nine years, is set for blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 21.33 BST (16:33 ET) this evening. Elon … Read more
The weather may still threaten the historical NASA and SpaceX launch, but the team is still moving ahead with their plans. Falcon 9, topped with the Crew Dragon capsule, is standing upright on the pad and the access arm is swung open for astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to walk across Wednesday. This will be … Read more
Charging the likes of NASA, ESA and SpaceX an annual fee for putting a satellite into orbit could help clamp down on the growing space debris problem, a study finds. Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder say an international agreement would be needed in order to charge operators ‘orbital use fees’ for every satellite. … Read more
International Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy has spoken out about the significance of NASA’s upcoming space flight, which will be the first launched from US soil since the space shuttle program ended. ‘It’s a gigantic deal,’ says Cassidy during a live interview from space as he spoke about the Wednesday launch that will bring astronauts Bob … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX crew on Saturday completed the final rehearsal for their historic mission – the first astronaut launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since the last shuttle flight in 2011. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, 49, and Douglas Hurley, 53, both veteran space travelers, will crew the capsule Wednesday. Hurley piloted Atlantis on its last … Read more
NASA’s head of human spaceflight quit on Monday, just days before the first commercial mission to take astronauts to the International Space Station. Elon Musk’s SpaceX will become the first commercial company to fly astronauts to the ISS in a flight that will also be the first from US soil since 2011. Doug Loverro, who … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched the fifth batch of its ‘Starlink’ space internet satellites – taking the total to 300. They form a constellation of thousands of satellites, designed to provide low-cost broadband internet service from low Earth orbit. The constellation, informally known as Starlink, and under development at SpaceX’s facilities in Redmond, Washington. Its goal … Read more
Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX has confirmed that its first manned space shuttle will launch next week. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will take off in the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 27 at 4:32 pm EDT (9:32pm BST). As part of the ‘Demo-2’ … Read more
SpaceX have created a Crew Dragon simulator that lets you play at being an astronaut and practise manually docking with the International Space Station. The free-to-play browser based tool presents users with a digital copy of the real-life controls astronauts would use if they needed to manually dock with the ISS. The real Crew Dragon … Read more