By Leonard David, Published by Space News, 9 October 2024 GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA is faced with the challenge of safely deorbiting, in one fell swoop, over 400 tons of space hardware in a few years. As of now, the agency plans on deorbiting the International Space Station in early
The Starliner spacecraft on NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test is pictured docked to the Harmony module's forward port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast: NASA By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, Published by CNN, 6 August 2024 CNN — The launch of SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, an
The Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module's forward port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast: NASA By Richard Luscombe, Published by The Guardian, 4 August 2024 Technical issues and poor comms led many to believe two astronauts are lost in space, but a
ISS. Credit: NASA By Anthony Wood, Published by IGN, 24 July 2024 SpaceX and NASA plan to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS) using a powerful version of the company's Dragon spacecraft, which will push the orbital outpost onto a precision atmospheric re-entry over an unpopulated ocean region. Earlier this
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 20 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on July 11, 2024. The second stage failed shortly after this picture was taken. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Elizabeth Howell, published by Space.com, 15 July 2024 A Falcon 9 rocket's second stage failed during a SpaceX Starlink satellite
The nine astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station pose for a photo. The two astronauts of Boeing's Crew Flight test mission, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, are in the blue flight suits in the bottom row. (Image credit: NASA) By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 11 July 2024 Engineers continue
By Abbey A. Donaldson, Released by NASA, 26 June 2024 NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at the Moon and Mars. As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it
The International Space Station jettisons a 2.9-ton pallet carrying used batteries on March 11, 2021. This photo was posted on Twitter by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins. (Image credit: NASA/Mike Hopkins via Twitter) By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 24 June 2024 The falling space junk crashed through two floors of their
