NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is supporting sounding rocket launch operations during a window extending from July 17-31, 2025.
NASA Wallops to Support July Launch Operations


NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is supporting sounding rocket launch operations during a window extending from July 17-31, 2025.

Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:31 a.m. PDT Tuesday ending a 20-day spaceflight that saw the private astronauts perform critical microgravity research aboard the International Space Station. Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has accumulated 695 days in space over five missions, led Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and Tibor Kapu back to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Editor’s Note: This post highlights a combination of peer-reviewed results and data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process. As data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope becomes public, researchers hunt its archives for unnoticed cosmic oddities. While examining images from the COSMOS-Web survey, two researchers, Pieter van […]

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked at 7:15 a.m. EDT from the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, completing the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4).

NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+ for the undocking of the fourth private astronaut mission, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), from the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

At 5:07 a.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for the undocking and return to Earth of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), with astronauts Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu.

NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+ for the departure of the fourth private astronaut mission, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), from the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

Mission managers have given the “go” for the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and undock from the International Space Station’s space-facing port on the Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 14. Ax-4 Commander Peggy Whitson will lead Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu back to Earth completing a two-and-a-half-week research mission aboard the orbiting lab.

NASA’s Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate (DRIVE) Science Centers are now available online. Information recently published on NASA’s science website includes each science center’s focus, associated partners, leveraged science missions, and where to learn more. The DRIVE Science Centers are the first of their kind, created to study important science topics in heliophysics. Heliophysics is […]

Exercise research and spacesuit maintenance topped the schedule for the Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crews on Thursday. The 11 orbital residents also kept up an array of space research to improve human health while ensuring the International Space Station continues orbiting Earth in tip-top shape.