NASA Glynn S. Lunney, left, fellow flight director Gerald D. Griffin, astronaut James A. McDivitt and astronaut and director of flight crew operations Donald K. “Deke” Slayton talk during the flight of Apollo 13 in 1970. Glynn S. Lunney, one of NASA’s first flight directors, who had a major role in guiding astronauts to the […]
The rocket engineers were giddy Thursday, cheering through their face masks. Applauding, virtually high-fiving and wishing they could hug each other to celebrate when NASA’s massive Space Launch System rocket finally successfully completed a key test of its main engines. It was a moment of triumph for the space agency, which over the past year […]
Heading into Saturday’s much-anticipated engine test of NASA’s massive moon rocket, the space agency said repeatedly it was confident the test would be successful as it worked toward the rocket’s first flight by the end of this year in a quest to return astronauts to the lunar surface. But during a private briefing Tuesday morning, […]
The space race in an alternate timeline continues in the second season of For All Mankind, returning to Apple TV+ in February. Apple TV+ has dropped the trailer for the second season of For All Mankind, its science fiction drama about an alternate history where the space race never ended. The series was the linchpin […]
NASA fired the four engines of its towering Space Launch System rocket for the first time Saturday after a decade of development, but the engines were cut off well short of the intended duration, a sign that something went wrong. NASA had been hoping to fire the four RS-25 rocket engines for eight minutes, but […]
We all know that 2020 was a no-good, horrible, fearful, tumultuous year that will be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic and the polarizing election. But for space enthusiasts, it was actually quite a good year, providing bits of promising news amid the bleak headlines of disease, economic hardship and protests. 2021 has potential for even […]
Jackson began her career in the 1950s in a segregated computing unit at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., that recently drew national attention as the setting for the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures,” based on a book by the same name. Last year, the portion of E St. SW in front of NASA’s D.C. […]
Boeing did not win one of the lucrative contracts to build a system capable of landing astronauts on the moon. But the inspector general investigation could be another headache for a company under fire for having an unusually cozy relationship with federal regulators, especially if it identifies wrongdoing on the part of Boeing senior executives. […]
(Reuters) — SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 […]
The arcs of their careers and personal lives have for years run on parallel tracks, like twin strands of DNA, winding from the military to test pilot school to the same NASA astronaut class, where both met their wives. Now Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are about to fly together in one of the most […]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine came to the agency knowing the flight would likely happen on his watch and that the stakes would be enormous. During one of his very first news conferences, he addressed the risks, recalling the national devastation after the failures of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles, which together cost 14 lives. […]
If all goes well, it would be the first launch of NASA astronauts to space from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program was retired nearly a decade ago, and it would be the first time a private company had boosted people to orbit. “There are no significant issues, I am happy to report,” Steve […]
NASA’s is preparing to launch astronauts from American soil, with an American rocket and spaceship, for the first time in nearly a decade. SpaceX plans to launch the astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, on May 27 through a Commercial Crew Program mission called Demo-2. Gwynne Shotwell, the president and COO of SpaceX, told Business […]
While the date could change — in spaceflight they often do — the announcement marks a significant milestone in NASA’s winding, at times tortuous, journey to regain its human spaceflight wings since it retired the space shuttle in 2011. This time, though, the launch will be markedly different from any other in the history of […]
The coronavirus pandemic has led to millions of people around the world swapping their regular office for a home-based alternative. NASA, for example, last month instructed all of its employees nationwide to work from home in an effort to protect them against the virus and also to help slow its spread. So how is it […]