NASA’s Balloon Program is past the halfway point for the fall campaign in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Four missions have successfully launched from the launch site, with two more lined up in the coming weeks. Hurricane Polo is affecting the upper-level winds near the launch site and the team is evaluating launch opportunities for the […]
The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission are set to touch down at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center at approximately 1 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Sept. 26, after flying in, arriving from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to begin their final days of launch preparations. Watch the crew’s arrival live on NASA Kennedy’s […]
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has resumed use of its third science instrument and automatically repointing to examine new high-energy flashes in the sky.
NASA, SpaceX, and international partners polled “go” to continue preparing for the agency’s Crew‑13 launch to the International Space Station following today’s Flight Readiness Review at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew-13 mission remains targeted to launch no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 1, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from […]
Four Expedition 75 crew members are nearing the end of their stay aboard the International Space Station and are awaiting the crew that will replace them next week.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft today fired its thrusters for XX mins, XX seconds boosting the International Space Station’s orbit.
NASA has now confirmed all ground stations supporting the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope are ready to receive the mission’s high volume of data once science operations begin by early 2027. Observing the far reaches of the cosmos wouldn’t be possible without a network of ground stations strategically located around the world serving as […]
NASA and SpaceX managers, along with international partners, are meeting today at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency’s Crew-13 Flight Readiness Review. During this critical review, teams will finalize preparations for SpaceX’s 13th crew rotation mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Over the next several hours, the review will focus […]
Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Chris Birch will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Makoto Suwa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut […]
Advanced health research, including ultrasound scans, blood tests, and exercise studies, using the latest technology in microgravity was on Thursday’s schedule for the Expedition 75 crew. The orbital residents also continued their ongoing cargo operations and maintenance tasks aboard the International Space Station.
