Enlarge / Boeing’s Starliner capsule takes off aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. After years of delays, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft finally launched into orbit from Florida on Wednesday, sending two veteran NASA astronauts on a long-delayed shakedown cruise to the International Space Station. The Starliner capsule lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas … Read more
John Raoux/AP Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch Wednesday atop an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for a mission to the International Space Station. CNN — After a successful launch a decade in the making, Boeing’s Starliner mission is navigating new challenges on its way to … Read more
After two trips to the launch pad that ultimately did not go into space, two NASA astronauts finally went into space Wednesday in a vehicle built by Boeing, the aerospace giant. The maiden voyage of Starliner, a 15-foot-wide capsule, with astronauts on board comes four years and six days after SpaceX, the other company NASA … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner capsule lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday. This is the first time the capsule, powered by a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, has flown people. Two NASA astronauts are on board for a day trip to the International Space Station. This test flight is years … Read more
Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 5, 2024 to include instructions on how to attend the post-docking briefing on Thursday, June 6. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit during the first crewed test flight aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft en route to the International Space Station. As part of … Read more
After a nearly month-long delay, NASA and its mission partners say it’s almost time to send two astronauts to the International Space Station for the Boeing Crew Flight Test. The historic launch, which was originally scrapped for May 6 and June 1 and postponed many times over time, in between, will mark the first time … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Boeing’s Starliner mission will make a third attempt Wednesday to launch its first crewed flight test, a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s maiden voyage with humans on board is … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Boeing’s Starliner mission will make a third attempt Wednesday to launch its first crewed flight test, a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s maiden voyage with humans on board is … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during the first manned flight in two years in which one of the New Shepard capsule’s parachutes failed to fully inflate. William Shatner on Jeff Bezos The companies New Shepard rocket launched May 19 taking a crew of … Read more
The story of NASA’s commercial crew program, NASA’s daring attempt a decade ago to outsource human spaceflight to a few companies, is a story of contrast – of an unlikely rise to prominence for one and an equally unlikely fall out the grace for the other. . SpaceX has become the world’s leading space company, … Read more