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VideoLive coverage: Chinese space station crew lands in Inner Mongolia
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after six months on the country's orbiting space station. The crew landed in northwestern China aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft at approximately 9:57 p.m. EDT Friday (0157 GMT Saturday).
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from California
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force in California at 6:13 a.m. PDT (9:13 a.m. EDT; 1313 GMT) Sunday with a top secret payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government's spy satellite agency. The Falcon 9 booster returned to a vertical landing back at Vandenberg about eight minutes later. SpaceX delayed the launch from Friday due to a technical issue, then decided to skip a launch opportunity Saturday because of unfavorable upper level winds.
VideoLive coverage: Technical issues again prevent full loading of SLS tanks
NASA tried for the third time Thursday to load cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants into the Space Launch System moon rocket at the Kennedy Space Center, after ground system issues cut short a countdown rehearsal on two occasions earlier this month. But a hydrogen leak in the connection between the launch platform and the core stage again forced officials to call off the countdown.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX crew capsule docks with space station
Less than a day after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, four commercial space fliers arrived Saturday at the International Space Station, becoming the first all-private crew to visit the orbiting research complex. Docking of SpaceX's Dragon Endeavour spacecraft with the station occurred at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: Four private astronauts launch to International Space Station
Four private citizens rode into orbit Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, taking aim on the International Space Station on the first all-commercial mission to visit the research complex. Liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida occurred at 11:17 a.m. EDT (1517 GMT).
VideoLive coverage: NASA evaluating next opportunity for SLS countdown test
NASA started loading liquid oxygen into the Space Launch System's core stage Monday, but scrubbed a countdown dress rehearsal before pumping propellants into the rocket's remaining propellant tanks. A previous fueling attempt was scrubbed Sunday due to a ground system issue at the Kennedy Space Center. The cryogenic tanking operation is part of a full-up countdown dress rehearsal ahead of the launch of unpiloted Artemis 1 moon mission.
VideoLive coverage: Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellites
Rocket Lab's Electron launcher lifted off from New Zealand at 8:41 a.m. EDT (1241 GMT) Saturday. The commercial small satellite launcher carried two remote sensing microsatellites into orbit for BlackSky.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches Transporter 4 rideshare mission
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:24 p.m. EDT (1624 GMT) Friday with with 40 satellites to begin Earth-observing, communications, and technology demonstration missions.
VideoBlue Origin flies fourth suborbital crew mission
Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital launcher lofted six passengers, including the rocket's chief designer, on an up-and-down flight to the edge of space Thursday.
VideoLive coverage: NASA astronaut returning home today with two Russian cosmonauts
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, wrapping up nearly one year in orbit, rode a Russian Soyuz spaceship back to Earth on Wednesday with Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Pyotr Dubrov. The crew returned home from the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan at 7:28 a.m. EDT (1128 GMT).