A tour of Johnson Space Center in Houston shows how NASA and private industry are already working together on the future of human spaceflight.
SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Aug. 22), on the 100th mission of the year for the company’s Falcon rocket family.
On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane higher than any pilot had ever flown before.
The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights and reentries, with the goal of expanding the nation’s capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.
The NASA astronauts who flew around the moon on the Artemis II mission will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28).
SpaceX completed a single-engine test-firing of its next Starship spacecraft to prepare for its coming test flight, which will be the first to reach orbit.
SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast.
SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from now, according to Elon Musk. He had earlier flagged late August as a potential date for the milestone.
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets.
A private spacecraft tasked with boosting the orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory has failed in its mission, meaning the telescope will crash back to Earth later this year.