NASA Nears Decision Time on Boeing Starliner’s Fate
With no consensus on the safety of the Starliner crew capsule, NASA officials said Wednesday they need another week or two before deciding whether to bring two astronauts back to …
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NASA Still Hasn’t Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home
During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the agency about whether the Starliner spacecraft is really reliable enough to return two …
Here’s What A Rocket Looks Like After 15 Years Abandoned In Space
There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t …
NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home
It has now been eight weeks since Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched into orbit on an Atlas V rocket, bound for the International Space Station. At the time NASA officials said …
Boeing Still Can’t Return Stranded Astronauts To Earth After 51 Days Stuck In Space
Boeing isn’t just having problems on Earth where plane production is facing questions from the top-tier of the U.S. Government, it’s also having issues in space as well. The American …
May solar superstorm triggered largest satellite ‘mass migration’ in history
In a pre-print paper published on arXiv on June 12, researchers reported that during the intense four-day solar storm in May, satellites and space debris in low Earth orbit experienced …
Boeing Starliner Could Return To Earth If It Needs To, Just Doesn’t Want To Right Now: NASA
Photo: Joel Kowsky/NASA (Getty Images) Despite the development delays and a drastically elongated mission, NASA stated on Wednesday that it’s aiming to return the Boeing Starliner from the International Space …
A Chinese Space Startup Launched Its New Rocket by Accident
One of the most promising Chinese space startups, Space Pioneer, experienced a serious anomaly last weekend while testing the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket near the city of Gongyi. …
Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business
In addition to raising these legal and ethical quandaries, the Apollo waste bags have also inspired exciting scientific questions. How long did those bagged microbes last on the Moon? Did …
Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults
In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Starliner spacecraft’s return to Earth from June 26 to an unspecified time in July. …