This week, two brand new spacecraft launched: SpaceX's Starship and Boeing's Starliner. Each had distinct missions and challenges.
Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and "how tiny and fragile and precious and finite it is."
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/07/401128365/nasa-astronaut-bill-anders-apollo-8-dead
This is the fourth test for Starship, and this time, it returned successfully to earth.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/g-s1-2988/spacex-starship-launch-fourth-elon-musk
After years of delay, Boeing's Starliner is flying people for the first time with two NASA astronauts heading to the International Space Station. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
After years of delays, Boeing Starliner finally launched humans for the first time Wednesday carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station.
NASA is shifting the way the Hubble Space Telescope points. The change is a work-around for a piece of hardware that's become intolerably glitchy. Officials say Hubble will continue to do 'ground...
The lunar probe mission aims to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/01/g-s1-2391/china-moon-landing-space
The Boeing Starliner launch was halted with just minutes to spare. The mission to the International Space Station was to carry two NASA astronauts. Starliner has already faced years of delays.
The same solar region that brought an outburst of night-time beauty in early May is coming back around. But things have changed, a space weather expert tells NPR.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/nx-s1-4987130/auroras-northern-lights-solar-sun
The U.S. accusation, which Russia denies, raises questions about how a satellite might be used as a weapon in low Earth orbit and how close the two countries are to developing such a military too...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/nx-s1-4975741/what-to-know-russia-satellite-space-weapon-cosmos-2576