Starship Flight 12: A New Pad, New Ship, Old Pressure
Flight 12 of Starship combines a brand-new launch complex, a heavily revised upper stage, and mounting pressure from NASA and commercial par…
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Artemis III Recast as an Earth Orbit Mission Before Moon Return
NASA has outlined preliminary plans for a redesigned Artemis III mission, now focused on Earth orbit rendezvous and docking tests with comme…
Artemis III Recast as an Orbital Test Before Any Moon Landing
Targeting a 2027 launch, Artemis III will no longer attempt a lunar landing. NASA has restructured the mission as an Earth-orbit test of ren…
SpaceX Juggles CRS-34 Cargo Run and Starship's Next Big Leap
SpaceX is operating on two critical fronts simultaneously: delivering nearly three tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station and…
CRS-34: SpaceX Delivers Science and Supplies to the Space Station
Pushed back by a full day before finding its launch window, SpaceX's 34th commercial resupply mission for NASA lifted off from Cape Canavera…
Starship Version 3 and Launch Pad 2 set for May 19 debut
SpaceX is targeting May 19, 2026 for the tenth Starship flight test, simultaneously debuting the redesigned Version 3 hardware and the brand…
Brian Hughes Returns to NASA to Lead Launch Operations
NASA has appointed Brian Hughes as senior director of launch operations, giving him authority over the agency's launch infrastructure at Ken…
Artemis II and Webb: Two Windows on the Cosmos
A razor-thin arc of Earth glowing against total darkness, and a spiral galaxy rendered in unprecedented detail: within days of each other, t…
Artemis II and Webb: Two windows onto the cosmos
A razor-thin arc of sunlit Earth, a spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away laid bare in infrared: Artemis II and the Webb telescope deliv…
Artemis II and Webb: humanity's week of two distances
One photograph shows Earth as a sliver of light taken by Artemis II astronauts. Another reveals a dust-laden spiral galaxy through Webb's in…
NASA Taps Brian Hughes to Lead Launch Operations at Two Key Sites
NASA has appointed Brian Hughes as senior director of launch operations, placing Kennedy Space Center and Wallops Flight Facility under a si…
Light Against the Dark: Artemis II and Webb's Galaxy Portrait
Within days of each other, NASA and the Webb telescope partnership released two striking images: a sliver of Earth glowing at the edge of sp…
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