Ahead of the launch, Onishi said: “I believe this will be my last trip to the ISS. It will be a culmination of the experience, insights and knowledge I have gained so far.” Read more
Japan’s Takuya Onishi is scheduled to command a fresh crew after it relieves a mission that includes two astronauts who have been aboard the station for nine months. Read more
One rocket’s chief passenger was SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a 100 colors that are invisible to the human eye. Read more
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down shortly after 3:34 am U.S. Eastern Time on the moon’s northeastern near side. Read more
A successful landing would make Ispace the first private Asian company to touch down on the moon. Read more
Ispace’s Resilience lander will lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more
The outage, which hasn’t previously been reported, meant that SpaceX mission control was briefly unable to command its Dragon spacecraft in orbit. Read more
The successful test underscores the astonishing progress SpaceX is making with its launch capabilities. Read more
The gumdrop-shaped capsule touched down softly at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, its descent slowed by parachutes and cushioned by airbags. Read more
The specter of NASA astronauts being stuck in space is just one embarrassing moment of many for Boeing during an epically bad year. Read more
