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NASA working with Tom Cruise to film movie on the International Space Station
NASA said Tuesday it is working with Tom Cruise to film a movie on the International Space Station, but details on the arrangements are scarce.
SpaceX aces last Dragon parachute test before crew launch
SpaceX completed Friday the last drop test of the Dragon crew capsule's parachutes before the first launch of astronauts on the human-rated ship May 27, while technicians at Cape Canaveral have mated the spacecraft's crew module with its unpressurized trunk section.
Companies release new details on human-rated lunar lander concepts
The next time astronauts land on the moon, they will ride to the lunar surface in a spacecraft that looks a lot different than the Apollo-era landing module last used in 1972. Lander concepts proposed by SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics -- which won a combined $967 million in NASA funding Thursday -- take wildly different approaches to carrying crews to the moon.
Citing coronavirus, NASA urges public not to travel for launch of astronauts
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Thursday urged space enthusiasts not to travel to the Kennedy Space Center next month to view the first launch of astronauts from the Florida spaceport since 2011, and asked people to instead watch the launch on television or online.
Photos: Space station crew back on Earth
A scaled-down team of technicians and medical personnel -- wearing facial masks as a precaution against the global coronavirus pandemic -- met a three-person space station crew on the steppes of Kazakhstan Friday after their landing aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch
Nearly a decade in the making, NASA and SpaceX have set May 27 as the target launch date for the first crewed space mission to launch into orbit from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.
Soyuz with crew of three lands safely in Kazakhstan
A Russian cosmonaut and his two NASA crewmates undocked from the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan early Friday, returning to an unfamiliar world in the grip of a pandemic that will force them to extend the social isolation they were hoping to end.
VideoLive coverage: Station crew lands in Kazakhstan
A Soyuz spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Thursday to bring home NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir, astronaut Andrew Morgan and Russian commander Oleg Skripochka. The Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft departed the station at 9:53 p.m. Thursday (0153 GMT Friday) and landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 1:16 a.m. EDT (0516 GMT).
Ground teams fuel Perseverance rover landing system, attach Mars Helicopter
Working under the cloud of the global coronavirus pandemic, technicians and engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have installed a rotor-driven drone on the agency's next Mars rover and fueled the spacecraft's "sky crane" landing system in preparation for launch in July.
Bridenstine says Crew Dragon could launch with astronauts at end of May
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says he is "fairly confident" that astronauts can fly to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship at the end of May or early June, pending final parachute tests, data reviews and a training schedule that can escape major impacts from the coronavirus pandemic.