Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and Rusty Schweickart orbited Earth for 10 days. They tested the lunar module’s engines and navigation systems. On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on...

SpaceX launched another crew of four to the International Space Station tonight (March 3). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission at 10:53 p.m. EST tonight (0353 GMT on March 4) from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral...

Move over, moon rocks: Space Center Houston has a new type of space stone in its showcase. The official visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Friday (March 1) became only the second place in the world where the public can see a sample of the asteroid Bennu as collected and brought...

A pioneering private space capsule captured spectacular footage of its fiery homecoming last month. Varda Space‘s first-ever mission, called W-1, wrapped up on Feb. 21 with the successful recovery of the California’s startup’s off-Earth manufacturing capsule. That conical...

Taking advantage of a weather delay for NASA’s next space station flight, SpaceX fired off another 23 Starlink internet satellites Thursday in a hazy leap day launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It was the California rocket builder’s 19th flight so far this year. Earlier...

Odysseus, an American lunar lander that had a doomed, wonky descent on the moon, sent its final image on Thursday before its power banks depleted, said Intuitive Machines (IM), the private company behind the project that saw America reach the Moon after over 50 years. The final image The photograph...

In a press release by AAC Clyde Space, its subsidiary, AAC Space Africa, announced winning its first satellite order to assemble, integrate, and test two satellites. The order, valued at approximately USD 213,078 (ZAR 4.1 million), is slated for delivery by June 2024. “We are delighted that AAC...

Global communications company Viasat announced Feb. 29 it has signed an agreement with defense prime contractor Northrop Grumman to support an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) experiment using broadband satellite internet to connect military vehicles and aircraft. The experiment is part of...

The International Space Station has sprung a leak. The space station has a leak at the aft end of the Russian module where the nation’s Progress spacecraft dock to the orbital lab, said NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) Program Manager Joel Mantalbano during a press briefing on...