SpaceX Fram2 crew splashes down off California coast to close out historic trip around Earth's poles
A wealthy space tourist and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday, ...
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...
Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles
No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...
SpaceX launches private astronaut crew in Fram2 polar-orbiting mission
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit ...
Astronauts who were stuck in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, say they'd fly on Boeing's Starliner again
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...
Our security structure is less Five Eyes and more Three Stooges
The current Washington omnishambles is creating problems for the Australia-US alliance and, in particular, the Five Eyes ...
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'Stranded' NASA astronauts are finally home – but what can being in space for so long do to your health?
Experienced astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore arrived at the International Space Station (ISS ... "The first two or three months after your return is really ...
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Futuristic, 'alien-like' nuclear fusion rockets developed in total secret could revolutionize space travel — if they actually work
U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half.
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Laws in space that NASA had to follow while astronauts were stranded there for nine months
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stuck in space for 286 days, in that time NASA and SpaceX had to figure out their return As Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams floated around the International ...
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Nine months in space has taken its toll
Liv Bridge is a digital journalist who joined the UNILAD team in 2024 after almost three years reporting local news for a ... pair are enduring a series of medical tests at NASA's Johnson Space Center ...
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What Happens If You Shoot a Gun in Space?
Space programs have spent decades figuring out how terrestrial activities would work outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Will plants grow? Do muscles atrophy? Will astronauts ever be able to do laundry?