Two NASA astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in early June were originally scheduled to return home a few weeks ago to complete a test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Instead, the astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will remain on the station for several weeks longer while NASA and Boeing engineers continue … Read more
WASHINGTON – NASA and Boeing plan to keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard the International Space Station well into July to conduct additional tests, stressing that the two-person crew is not “stranded” in space. At a June 28 briefing on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission, the first in 10 days, agency and company officials … Read more
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A defunct Russian satellite has disintegrated into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter for about an hour and adding to the mass of space junk already in a orbit around the Earth is enlarged. agencies said. There … Read more
Nine astronauts on the space station briefly moved to their docked return spacecraft late Wednesday (June 26) when a satellite in low Earth orbit disintegrated. The crew of Expedition 71 of the International Space Station (ISS) took off to their three spacecraft, including Boeing Starliner, shortly after 9:00 PM EDT (02:00 GMT), according to a … Read more
Two NASA astronauts were preparing to leave the International Space Station (ISS) for a second attempt at a spacewalk, but it was called off again due to a worrying space suit malfunction. Three astronauts may be stranded on the ISS after causing a Soyuz coolant leak NASA had to cancel a spacewalk on Monday due … Read more
NASA’s oldest active astronaut will return to space in September for a six-month mission. Don Pettit, 69, will go to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Roscosmos-led Soyuz MS-26 mission, which also includes Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian state media source TASS said this week that the launch date … Read more
NASA’s oldest active astronaut will return to space in September for a six-month mission. Don Pettit, 69, will go to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Roscosmos-led Soyuz MS-26 mission, which also includes Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian state media source TASS said this week that the launch date … Read more
WASHINGTON — As NASA grapples with more space suit problems on the International Space Station, the company it selected to develop replacement suits says it is withdrawing from that effort. In a statement to SpaceNews on June 25, a spokesperson for Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of RTX Corp., said the company and NASA had agreed … Read more
Astronauts are conducting a “spacewalk assessment” in orbit after a coolant leak canceled a planned excursion on Monday (June 24), NASA officials said in an update. NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mike Barratt stopped the spacewalk while still in the hatch of the International Space Station (ISS), due to a leak in Dyson’s space … Read more
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Problems with Boeing’s Starliner capsule, still docked at the International Space Station (ISS), have upended original plans for the two astronauts to return to Earth, as last-minute fixes and testing yield a mission crucial to the future of Boeing’s space division. NASA has rescheduled the planned return three times … Read more