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On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. Endeavour was the fifth and last space shuttle that was ever built, and STS-49 was the first of 25 missions to fly on it. The purpose of this mission was to retrieve a satellite called Intelsat 603, which had failed to reach

The first crewed flight of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule has been pushed to the end of the week due to a technical issue. Starliner was supposed to launch late Monday night (May 6) on Crew Flight Test (CFT), a roughly 10-day mission that will carry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and

Two bus-sized asteroids will zip past Earth closely but safely this week, starting with a 7-meter-long (22-feet) space rock named 2024 JF that’s expected to pass by on Monday (May 6) evening. Astronomers expect 2024 JF to make its closest approach at 8:04 p.m. ET tonight (1204 GMT on Tuesday). It will be followed by

Underneath the arch of a huge coronal loop, a wealth of exotic solar phenomena active in the transition zone between the sun’s lower atmosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona, have been recorded in this magical video by the European Space Agency‘s Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The view, recorded by Solar Orbiter from a distance of a

When Boeing’s Starliner capsule carries two astronauts to space tonight (May 6), at least 100 people in Mission Control will be on hand for support and guidance. Tonight’s mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), will be the first-ever crewed liftoff for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. CFT will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 6), the company’s 46th orbital mission of the year already. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 2:14 p.m. EDT (1814 GMT), carrying 23 Starlink craft toward low Earth orbit (LEO). The Falcon 9’s first stage

In a news report released by the United Nations African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in English (UN-ARCSSTEE), Professor Babatunde Rabiu, the Director of UN-ARCSSTEE, disclosed that Nigeria had acquired the first cosmic ray muon detector in Africa during a symposium focusing on Cosmic Rays and Space Weather organised by UN-ARCSSTEE in

After 25 years of drifting undetected in space, an experimental satellite that launched in 1974 has been found using tracking data from the U.S. Space Force. The Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73-7) satellite started its journey into the great unknown after launching on April 10, 1974 through the United States Air Force’s Space Test Program. It

On May 6, 1968, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong almost met his fate while simulating a lunar landing. This was a little over a year before he would become the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was flying in a machine called the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston