NASA’s transition from the Space Shuttle to the commercial crew vehicles will dramatically improve crew safety parameters relating to the transportation of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). However, preparing for the worst is a necessary requirement that is currently being evaluated by NASA, per presentations to the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP).
All three of the main contenders competing to return domestic crew launch capability to the…
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) have recommended that NASA personnel embedded at commercial companies…
February started with two Chinese launches. On Feb. 2, a Long March 2C rocket launched…
NASA launched its next astronaut rotation, Crew-7, to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday,…
SpaceX launched two Starlink missions from both coasts within the week. The first launch, Starlink…
With the launch just weeks away, SpaceX, NASA, and their international partners are in final…
SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 Block 5 on Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 PM EDT…
Nine months after valve issues caused its previous launch attempt to be scrubbed, Boeing’s Starliner…
After a successful launch, Crew Dragon C212 Freedom docked to the International Space Station (ISS)…
Booster 7 has been returned to the High Bay after undergoing two ambient tests and…
NASA and Boeing have finished the agency Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the second Orbital…
Today, Roscosmos is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Vostok-1 mission, which launched Yuri Gagarin…
Only a handful of days after successfully returning domestic crew launch capabilities to U.S. soil…
The path to regaining US domestic crew launch capability passed another major milestone on Friday,…
Updated plans in Low Earth Orbit and beyond now include replacing the Tracking and Data…
The gap in US domestic crew launch capability is coming to an end as soon…
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has announced its Louisville, Colorado production facility has received the first…
A moment nearly ten years in the making. After receiving a formal development award on…
SpaceX conducted a static fire test of their human-rated Crew Dragon capsule on Wednesday near…
