Just five months after revealing the NASA astronauts who will fly the crewed test flights for both SpaceX’s Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner missions, NASA announced today that a medical issue will prevent one of those astronauts from flying the Starliner crewed test flight.
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United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket launched Saturday with the mysterious NROL-71 mission for…
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A 12 year campaign – including a two year, eight launch process – came to…
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Activation of the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for the “Green…
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At the southern tip of Texas, SpaceX is preparing to begin testing their interplanetary spacecraft.…
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SpaceX’s CRS-16 Dragon spacecraft has concluded the EOM (End Of Mission) phase of her mission…
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CommercialSpaceX
Iridium boss reflects as final NEXT satellite constellation launches
January 11, 2019The eighth and final Iridium NEXT launch – that was conducted on Friday – will…
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NASA is yet to release any information as to why the latest RS-25 test in…
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OtherUncrewed
New Horizons in solar communication blackout, team studies first flyby data
January 8, 2019As New Horizons and its scientists prepare for the end of a solar conjunction in…
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An international planetary defense mission involving NASA and ESA will now include two CubeSats. APEX (Asteroid Prospection…
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SLS/Orion
Third SLS STA headed to Marshall as limited work continues during NASA shutdown
January 4, 2019Just prior to expiration of U.S. federal government funding for NASA on December 21, the…
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CommercialISSSpaceX
Falcon 9 with Dragon 2 rolls out for DM-1 dry dress rehearsal at 39A
January 3, 2019The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon capsule which will execute the Demonstration Mission-1 (DM-1)…
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OtherUncrewed
2014 MU69 revealed as a contact binary in first New Horizons data returns
January 2, 2019It’s a contact binary, two different spherical rocks permanently touching each other and bound together…
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made history once again, completing a daring mission encounter at…
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In early December, NASA’s Orion Program completed a “Delta” Critical Design Review (CDR) of the…
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Russia’s last satellite launch of 2018 saw a Soyuz rocket lift off from the Vostochny…
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SpaceX capped an impressive 21 launch year campaign with the company’s long-sought first U.S. National…
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InternationalISSRussian
Soyuz MS-09 lands after unprecedented on-orbit repairs, inspections
December 19, 2018With a mission that was anything but mundane, Soyuz MS-09 with its three-person crew returned…
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Arianespace conducted its final launch of 2018 on Wednesday, following a scrub – due to…
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Rocket Lab has launched its second mission in just over a month on Sunday. The…