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NASA chief excited for Starliner launch, touts importance of competition

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is ready to cheer on the launch of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule on a vital uncrewed test flight this week. Boeing and NASA are gearing up to launch a mission dubbed Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) ...

Boeing set to retry test flight in bid to take on SpaceX

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Thursday, July 29, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

China will send student experiments into deep space on 2 upcoming missions

The China National Space Administration opened a call for popular Chang'e 7 science experiments in June 2020 and received 578 designs, including 143 from elementary schools, 206 from middle schools, 217 from universities, and 12 from elsewhere.

Boeing's Starliner capsule rolls out to launch pad again (photos)

Boeing's Starliner capsule is back on the launch pad. Starliner and its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out to Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning (Aug. 2) to prep for its planned liftoff tomorrow ...

It Was His Day Off. Then the Space Station Went for a Spin.

The New York Times

The New York Times

Zebulon Scoville and others at NASA's mission control in Houston spent Thursday righting the International Space Station after a new Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters.

In battle with Russian lab module, space station 'brought a knife to a gun fight'

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

Moments later, station cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov opened a final hatch and floated into the roomy new addition. "Congratulations for a successful venting," station commander Akihiko Hoshide radioed flight controllers in Houston ...

Music masterpiece 'Clair de Lune' beamed to space station in NFT 1st

The commercialization of the final frontier continues apace. Last week, the companies Nanoracks LLC and Artemis Music Entertainment teamed up to beam a recording of composer Claude Debussy's piano masterpiece "Clair de Lune" ("Moonlight") to and ...

Light detected behind a black hole for the first time

For the first time, scientists have detected light from behind a black hole, and it fulfills a prediction rooted in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins and his colleagues observed X ...

NASA study highlights importance of surface shadows in moon water puzzle

The Moon is covered with craters and rocks, creating a surface "roughness" that casts shadows, as seen in this photograph from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. These cold shadows may allow water ice to accumulate as frost even at daytime. The area of detail is ...

New material offers ecofriendly solution to converting waste heat into energy

A team of scientists from Northwestern University and Seoul National University in Korea now has demonstrated a high-performing thermoelectric material in a practical form that can be used in device development. The material—purified tin selenide ...