NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian crewmates landed in Kazakhstan this evening, April 19, which was April 20 local time at the landing site. The time zone difference is […].
NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio departed the space station at 5:57 p.m. EDT aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft before making a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, […].
Weekly Pre Launch Preview: 4 Falcons, ISS Resupply, Recon Satellites, and G60 Constellation Launch.
SpaceX is busy creating launch and production capacity for the future of its Starship program,… The post Starship program laying groundwork for huge facilities in Texas and Florida appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com..
The quick pace of missions is notably quick for the intelligence gathering agency. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 5:29 a.m. PDT (8:29 a.m. EDT, 1229 UTC). .
China sent six experimental Shiyan series satellites into orbit late Friday Eastern, using its Long March 6A rocket launched from Taiyuan. The post China launches 6 classified experimental satellites with Long March 6A appeared first on SpaceNews..
Spain’s Council of Ministers has approved a loan agreement under which national satellite operator Hisdesat will receive €1.011 billion over eight years to develop a pair of PAZ 2 satellites. The PAZ-1 synthetic aperture radar was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in February 2018. It delivers high-resolution Earth observation imagery for a wide range […] The post Spain Approves €1 Billion Loan to Hisdesat for PAZ 2 Satellites appeared first on European Spaceflight..
More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA’s headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they expect. The post States bid to host a revamped NASA headquarters appeared first on SpaceNews..
It turns out the FAA now takes no role in identifying who is an astronaut..
This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The Eagle Nebula is one of many nebulae in the Milky Way that are known […].