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NASA astronauts 'very excited' about Boeing's upcoming Starliner OFT-2 launch

"As you know, a year and a half ago in December 2019, we met a lot of objectives, but we did not meet the objective of rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station," NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana, a former astronaut, said during the ...

Boeing's Starliner launch delayed yet again

"Consequently, the launch of the Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will be postponed. The launch was scheduled for 1:20 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 3. Boeing and NASA teams are assessing the ...

Watch cosmonauts explore Russia's new Nauka space station module in this video tour

Russia's space agency Roscosmos' Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) — nicknamed "Nauka," which means "science" in Russian — docked with the space station Thursday (July 29). After docking, the ...

Chinese startup iSpace fails to reach orbit again with Hyperbola-1 rocket

The latest failure of a Chinese commercial rocket may point to growing pains as the country opens its space sector to more private participation, according to a news report. The flight test of China's Hyperbola-1 rocket, built by the Chinese company iSpace, ...

Launch of Boeing crew capsule scrubbed due to propulsion system issue

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Spaceflight Now

"During pre-launch preparations for the uncrewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, Boeing engineers monitoring the health and status of the vehicle detected unexpected valve position indications in the propulsion system," the company said in a ...

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Boeing's Starliner launch is delayed, again

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"We're confirming today's #Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 launch is scrubbed," Boeing said in a tweet. The delay stems from "unexpected valve position indications in the Starliner propulsion system," NASA said in a blog post.

Measuring nitrogen in green manures

Katherine Muller and her team are working on strategies to measure nitrogen fixation in breeding programs for two common cover crops: crimson clover and hairy vetch. Both crops can pull nitrogen from the air to help them grow. This is called nitrogen fixation.

SpaceX installs 29 engines on giant Super Heavy Mars rocket (photos)

Starship is powering up. SpaceX plans to launch the first orbital test flight of Starship, its reusable deep-space transportation system, in the next few months from the company's South Texas site, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica. The company has ...

Michigan's Lake Huron sinkhole is a window into how Earth's earliest forms of life diversified

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CNN

A burbot fish resting on rocks covered in purple and white microbial mats inside the Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron. Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Mapping the cellular circuits behind spitting

For over a decade, researchers have known that the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans can detect and avoid short-wavelength light, despite lacking eyes and the light-absorbing molecules required for sight. As a graduate student in the Horvitz lab, Nikhil ...