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SpaceX ‘on track’ to launch astronauts in late 2017
SpaceX is on schedule to fly two NASA astronauts on a test flight to the International Space Station by the end of 2017, but there is a lot of work to do to ensure the company's new Crew Dragon spaceship is up to the task and ready in time, a SpaceX manager said Tuesday.
First German commander among astronauts named for station flights
International Space Station managers have named crew members to future expeditions to the research lab in 2017 and 2018, including the first German commander of a space mission and Canada's third astronaut to fly a long-duration residency on the complex.
Upgraded Antares rolls out to launch pad for tests
An Antares booster emerged from its hangar on Virginia's Eastern Shore and rolled out to its launch pad Thursday for the first time since a rocket failure grounded Orbital ATK's cargo launcher in 2014.
Shuttle skipper, mountaineering spacewalker going into Hall of Fame
Commander of the 100th space shuttle flight and a spacewalker who later climbed Mount Everest will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.
Cargo-carrying Dragon spaceship returns to Earth
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship departed the International Space Station on Wednesday, fired rocket thrusters to brake out of orbit, and parachuted to a picture-perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with approximately 3,461 pounds of experiment samples and equipment.
Live coverage: Dragon supply ship back on Earth
SpaceX's Dragon cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Wednesday at 9:19 a.m. EDT (1319 GMT), concluding the commercial spaceship's eighth visit to the complex. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 2:55 p.m. EDT (1855 GMT).
Key return to flight milestone looms for Antares rocket
Targeting a resumption of Antares cargo launches to the International Space Station as soon as July, Orbital ATK plans to roll out an upgraded Antares rocket to a launch pad in Virginia this week for a 30-second firing of the booster's new engines.
Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery
Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules, replacing a unit lost in a Falcon 9 launch failure last year.
Q&A with Mark Mulqueen, Boeing’s space station program manager
The International Space Station's oldest sections launched nearly 17 years ago, and with the huge orbiting research complex now well into its operational life as a microgravity science lab, prime contractor Boeing's job is keeping the outpost going, according to Mark Mulqueen, who manages the aerospace company's space station program.
Expandable room installed on space station
The International Space Station's robotic arm, under the control of engineers on Earth, extracted an experimental inflatable habitat from the trunk of SpaceX's Dragon supply ship Saturday and attached it to the orbiting complex.