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Tag: human spaceflight
NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad
The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s […]
A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled
The damage occurred during the shipment of the spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module from its manufacturer in Italy. While Northrop Grumman […]
Rocket Report: Ariane 6 beats Vulcan to third launch; China’s first drone ship
Why is China’s heavy-lift Long March 5B able to launch only 10 Guowang satellites at a time? Wearing their orange […]
With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they’ll come back
“We are looking at the potential to extend this current flight, Crew-11.” NASA astronaut Zena Cardman departs crew quarters at […]
The ISS is nearing retirement, so why is NASA still gung-ho about Starliner?
NASA is doing all it can to ensure Boeing doesn’t abandon the Starliner program. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United […]
Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts
Fewer robots, more humans The House version of NASA’s fiscal year 2026 budget includes $9.7 billion for exploration programs, a […]
NASA tested a new SLS booster that may never fly, and the end of it blew off
NASA didn’t want to say much about one of the tests, and the other one lost its nozzle. An uncontained […]
NASA just swapped a 10-year-old Artemis II engine with one nearly twice its age
Skip to content One of the engines on NASA’s next Space Launch System rocket requires repairs. Engine 2063, seen in […]
Rocket Report: The pitfalls of rideshare; China launches next Tiangong crew
This week, engineers ground-tested upgrades for Blue Origin’s New Glenn and Europe’s Ariane 6. A Long March 2F carrier rocket, […]