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Wednesday, 05 June 2024 11:24

ILA 2024 in images – Day 1

Ribbon-cutting ceremony at ILA Space Pavilion 2024.
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Chang'e-6 landing site on the far side of the Moon

The first ESA instrument to land on the Moon has detected the presence of negative ions on the lunar surface produced through interactions with the solar wind.

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Cape Canaveral FL (AFP) Jun 06, 2024
Boeing on Wednesday launched its very first astronauts bound for the International Space Station aboard a Starliner capsule, which joins a select club of spacecraft to carry humans beyond Earth. The third time turned out to be the charm for the aerospace giant, after two previous bids to fly with crew were aborted late into the countdown, for technical reasons.
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Ariane 6 first flight payloads moved to the encapsulation hall Image: Ariane 6 first flight payloads moved to the encapsulation hall
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Wednesday, 05 June 2024 14:27

Starliner lifts off on crewed test flight

Starliner CFT liftoff
Starliner CFT liftoff
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Boeing launches NASA astronauts for the first time after years of delays
Boeing's Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Credit: AP Photo/John Raoux

Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA.

A pair of NASA test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule for the International Space Station, the first to fly the new spacecraft.

The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival Thursday.

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A Russian cosmonaut becomes the first person to spend 1,000 days in space
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, a crew member of the next mission to the International Space Station, attends a news conference at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on July 21, 2015.
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