Mar 26 WATCH: NASA explains what you need to know about the April 8 total solar eclipse By News Desk A total solar eclipse will be visible across a large swath of the U.S. on Monday, April 8. Continue reading
Mar 18 Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, has died at age 93 By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Before Apollo 10, Stafford also took part in the first rendezvous of two U.S. spacecraft in 1965. A decade later, he because the first American to shake hands with a Soviet citizen in space when an Apollo spacecraft docked with… Continue reading
Mar 14 SpaceX loses contact with Starship after nearly completing 3rd test flight By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Thursday morning's launch outperformed the previous two test flights, which lasted just minutes before blowing up last year. Continue reading
Mar 12 Multinational crew returns to Earth in SpaceX capsule after six months in orbit By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press They moved into the space station last August. Their replacements arrived last week in their own SpaceX capsule. Continue reading
Mar 05 Hundreds of miles above Earth, 2 astronauts cast their votes By Associated Press Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara confirmed they had cast their celestial ballots in posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Being in space didn’t stop (O’Hara) and I from voting. Go vote today!” Moghbeli wrote. Continue reading
Feb 27 With only hours until it dies, lunar lander Odysseus sends back more photos of the moon By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Once sunlight can no longer reach the lander's solar panels, operations will end. Continue reading
Feb 26 Private U.S. lunar lander to cease operations Tuesday after landing sideways By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday that sunlight will likely stop shining on the solar panels Tuesday morning. Continue reading
Feb 23 WATCH: NASA and Intuitive Machines say lunar lander is on its side, hampering communications By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A private U.S. lunar lander tilted over at touchdown and ended up on its side near the moon’s south pole, hampering communications, company officials said Friday. Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch 5:29 U.S. company lands private spacecraft on surface of the moon By Geoff Bennett, Miles O'Brien, Shoshana Dubnow It's the first U.S.-built spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years, and the first ever by a private company. The Odysseus lander took off from Cape Canaveral last week and made it to the lunar surface… Continue watching
Feb 22 Private lander touches down on the moon but is sending a weak signal By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The lander’s choreographed descent was the first for the U.S. since 1972, when Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt left the last bootprints in the desolate gray dust. Continue reading