“If a major meteor shower outburst or storm is forecast during a mission or crew activity, the mission would be delayed or the crew kept inside until the outburst or storm is over.”
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ISS astronauts briefly sheltered aboard an attached SpaceX Dragon capsule today (June 5) while cosmonauts tried to fix a persistent leak on the Russian side of the orbiting lab.
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SpaceX will sell its shares for $135 apiece during its IPO, yielding a valuation of $1.77 trillion.
More than 50 new Starlink satellites are now in orbit after launches from California and Florida.
NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here’s the fate that awaits the probe.
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Scientists failed to find radio signals emanating from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, further bolstering its status as a natural object, not one made by aliens.
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After its rocket explosion, Blue Origin wants to complete repairs and put another New Glenn on the launchpad before the end of 2026, according to CEO Dave Limp. That’s very ambitious.
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NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.
In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly to space. Nearly three decades later, we learned that she had also been an LGBTQ trailblazer.
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China launched its partially reusable Long March 12B rocket for the first time ever on Monday (June 1), sending it up without issuing airspace closure notices ahead of time.
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