SpaceX Starship disintegrates after completing most of third test flight
Boca Chica, Texas Reuters SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly an entire test flight through space on its third try on Thursday, getting farther than ever before, but disintegrated on its return to Earth. During a webcast of the flight, SpaceX commentators said mission control lost […]
NASA delays astronaut Moon landing to 2026 amid spacecraft ‘challenges’
Washington DC, USReuters NASA on Tuesday added more delays to its Artemis Moon program, scheduling for 2026 its first astronaut lunar landing in half a century while spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and other contractors face development challenges. The US space agency’s first two Artemis missions involving astronauts were each pushed back nearly […]
NASA names chief of UFO research while in Mexico, ‘alien bodies’ presentation panned as “stunt”
Washington DC, US Reuters NASA on Thursday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP, while the US space agency’s chief said an expert panel that urged deeper fact-finding on the matter found no evidence of an extraterrestrial origin for these objects. Administrator Bill […]
Russia signals space station pullout; NASA says it’s not official yet
Washington DC, USReuters Russia’s new space chief announced on Tuesday his country plans to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, but senior NASA officials said Moscow has not formally conveyed an intent to end its two-decade-old orbital partnership with the United States. While heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of […]
Russian anti-satellite missile test endangers space station crew – NASA
Washington DC, USReuters An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on Monday generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space Station and will pose a hazard to space activities for years, US officials said. The seven-member space station crew – four US astronauts, a German astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts – were […]