Boeing CST-100 Starliner Secured Atop ULA Atlas V 26 July 2021 | 10:40 pm The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on July 17, 2021....

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Integrated With ULA Atlas V 19 July 2021 | 3:14 pm Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 17, 2021....

SpaceX Cargo Dragon Recovery 16 July 2021 | 12:19 am After its successful parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 11:29 p.m. EST on July 9, 2021, the cargo Dragon spacecraft was loaded aboard SpaceX's Go Navigator recovery ship....

NASA Announces Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Concept Awards 13 July 2021 | 12:10 pm NASA is leading an effort, working with the Department of Energy (DOE), to advance space nuclear technologies....

NASA Offers $45M to Solve Risks for Astronaut Moon Landing Services 11 July 2021 | 11:21 pm To help the agency fine-tune its approach, NASA will award firm fixed-price, milestone-based contracts of up to $45 million for commercial-led work under a broad agency announcement released Thursday....

NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract 9 July 2021 | 11:19 am NASA and Northrop Grumman of Dulles, Virginia, have finalized a contract to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway, which will be a critical way station and outpost in orbit around the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis...

A Packed SpaceX Cargo Dragon Ready To Return To Earth 8 July 2021 | 11:57 pm Thomas Pesquet: This is over 2000 kg of science samples and equipment returning to the ground. Dragon is packed and ready to leave for Earth, scientist's can't wait!...

ULA Landsat 9 Launch Vehicle Arrives At Vandenberg 8 July 2021 | 11:54 pm The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V booster for NASA's Landsat 9 mission is offloaded from the Antonov 124 cargo aircraft at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on June 29, 2021....

Loading A Science Freezer Inside A SpaceX Cargo Dragon 8 July 2021 | 11:51 pm NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough loads a Polar science freezer filled with critical research samples inside the SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship for retrieval and analysis back on Earth....

Preparing The Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer On the ISS 6 July 2021 | 11:40 pm Thomas Pesquet: Mark working with the airlock in Japan's Kibo module, used amongst other things to deploy miniature satellites from the Space Station!...

Starbase Boca Chica Seen From Orbit 29 June 2021 | 12:12 am Thomas Pesquet: Yes it is tiny but great things happen here: SpaceX's other (other) launch site in Boca Chica (I hear I'm supposed to call it Starbase now?). I couldn't spot a Starship on the pad but maybe I wasn't...

Starliner's Atlas V Launcher Arrives in Florida 28 June 2021 | 12:16 am The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V booster and Centaur upper stage for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) arrive at the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on...

Rosie The Rocketeer 23 June 2021 | 11:57 pm Rosie the Rocketeer, Boeing's anthropometric test device, claimed her spot once again in the commander's seat inside the company's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for its second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA's Commercial Crew Program....

NASA and Boeing Progress Toward July Launch of Second Starliner Flight Test 16 June 2021 | 1:23 pm NASA and Boeing are continuing preparations ahead of Starliner's second uncrewed flight to prove the system can safely carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station....

Sierra Space and Rhodium Scientific Sign Agreement Exploring Viability of Science Operations LIFEâ 16 June 2021 | 11:27 am Sierra Space Corporation (Sierra Space), the new commercial space subsidiary of global aerospace and national security leader Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), today announced the signing of a joint agreement with Rhodium Scientific, an innovative provider of space microgravity science mission...