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NASA has awarded service contracts worth up to US$3.5 billion through 2034 to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to provide new space suits to the agency and private firms, for use on the International Space Station (ISS) and on the Moon.Continue Readin… Continue reading NASA awards contracts for next-generation space suits it’ll rent
Boeing’s Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 5:49 pm CDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at the end of a six-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Co… Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft safely touches down in New Mexico
Boeing is back in the business of human spaceflight after its uncrewed CST-100 Starliner passenger spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:28 pm EDT, fulfilling the key objective of Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2).C… Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner successfully docks with the ISS
On its third attempt, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft reached Earth orbit today. At 6:55 pm EDT, the uncrewed passenger capsule launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.Continue … Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft reaches orbit on third launch attempt
On its third attempt, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft reached Earth orbit today. At 6:55 pm EDT, the uncrewed passenger capsule launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.Continue … Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft reaches orbit on third launch attempt
Russia’s loose cannon of a space boss is sending mixed messages about the future of the International Space Station. Among the conflicting statements from Director-General Dmitry Rogozin, the Roscosmos version …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 8, 2022
After delays due to bad weather back on Earth, Axiom-1 (Ax-1), history’s first all-private mission to the International Space Mission (ISS) returned today. At 1:06 pm EDT, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off the coast of Florida.Continue R… Continue reading The first all-private mission to ISS splashes down after 17 days
In an era where anyone with deep enough pockets can hitch a ride to the edge of space and back, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Axiom’s Ax-1 mission to …read more Continue reading Axiom’s Private ISS Mission Was No Space Vacation
History was made today when Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), the first private crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS), lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:17 am EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Co… Continue reading First private mission to the International Space Station lifts off
With a view to shoring up the supply of scientific cargo to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded contracts for 12 further flights to SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. This extends agreements with two of the agency’s key partners in its ongoing … Continue reading SpaceX and Northrop Grumman earn new resupply contracts for the ISS