A Slightly Toasted Dragon Returns To SpaceX For A Clean Up 23 January 2020 | 9:09 pm The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is offloaded from the company's recovery ship, Go Searcher, at the Port Canaveral Army wharf in Florida, carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft following the uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test, Jan. 19, 2020....

NASA, SpaceX Complete Final Major Flight Test of Crew Spacecraft 19 January 2020 | 6:39 pm NASA and SpaceX completed a launch escape demonstration of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday....

SpaceX, NASA Gear up for In-Flight Abort Demonstration 14 January 2020 | 11:10 pm NASA and SpaceX are preparing to launch the final, major test before astronauts fly aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program....

Boeing Starliner Completes First Orbital Flight Test with Successful Landing 22 December 2019 | 2:01 pm The spacecraft's crew module landed at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range at 5:48 a.m. Mountain time, after spending just over two days on orbit and checking off a number of flight test objectives....

Boeing Flight Test for Commercial Crew Program Will Pave the Way for Future Science 17 December 2019 | 10:10 pm Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) is the second uncrewed test flight of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a partnership with the aerospace industry to launch astronauts on U.S. rockets and spacecraft from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011....

Blue Origin's 12th Mission Is A Success 11 December 2019 | 9:38 pm New Shepard had a wholly successful mission on December 11, 2019....

NASA Announces Intent to Procure a Future Short Duration Spaceflight Opportunity 27 November 2019 | 2:09 pm NASA has released a synopsis with the intent to purchase a seat on a private astronaut mission for a short duration single flight opportunity to the International Space Station to meet both human research and low-Earth orbit commercialization needs....

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Mated With United Launch Alliance Rocket For First Flight 21 November 2019 | 9:36 pm The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft that will launch to the International Space Station on the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has taken a significant step toward launch....

Boeing Starliner Pad Abort Test Completed Despite Parachute Failure 4 November 2019 | 10:37 am The pad abort test of Boeing Starliner was technically a success today. The system quickly removed the capsule from the danger zone and landed exactly as planned but one of the three mian parachutes did not deploy....

Virgin Galactic Partners with Under Armour to Unveil the World's First Exclusive Spacewear System 16 October 2019 | 5:57 pm In January 2019, Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson and Under Armour CEO and Founder Kevin Plank announced a collaboration which saw Under Armour become Virgin Galactic's Technical Spacewear Partner....

Testing The New SpaceX Spacesuits 15 October 2019 | 12:26 am NASA and SpaceX conducted a formal verification of the company's emergency escape system on Sept. 18, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A in Florida....

SpaceX In-Flight Abort Test Falcon 9 Arrives In Florida 8 October 2019 | 11:19 pm The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will be used for the company's In-Flight Abort Test arrives at SpaceX's hangar at Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

NASA Awards Lockheed Martin Contract for Six Orion Spacecraft 23 September 2019 | 5:14 pm NASA and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have finalized a contract for the production and operations of six Orion spacecraft missions and the ability to order up to 12 in total....

ESA Spacecraft Dodges Large Constellation 3 September 2019 | 11:07 pm For the first time, ESA has performed a 'collision avoidance manoeuvre' to protect one of its spacecraft from colliding with a satellite in a large constellation....

i-Space Launches SQX-1 Rocket 9 August 2019 | 12:11 am When talking about private space programs, most people will think of the visionary American entrepreneur Elon Musk and his Space X. He founded the company aiming to send humans to Mars. Recently, a Chinese private aerospace company, i-Space, successfully launched...