Washington DC (UPI) Aug 22, 2024
NASA has taken the next critical step in preparing for the launch of its first crewed Artemis space mission, the agency announced Thursday. On Wednesday, crews rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware, a cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter, that will connect the rocket's core stage to its upper one, protecting the engines that will help propel the Artemis II in a test flight

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 22, 2024
SpaceX on \revealed the Crew Dragon capsules that will take part in the Polaris Dawn and Crew-9 astronaut missions on Aug. 27 and Sept. 4. The capsules were rolled out Wednesday at its processing facility in Florida with SpaceX saying on social media they were "readying for flight." Polaris Dawn is the first of three private missions paid for by billionaire tech owner Jared Isaac

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2024
Physicians at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Augusta University are collaborating with the Polaris Dawn mission, part of the Polaris Program's series of human spaceflights, to explore the causes of eye changes that many astronauts experience during space missions. These changes, known as Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome (SANS), can result in a range of symptoms from needing

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2024
Bluestone Investment Partners has finalized a strategic investment in Qualis Corporation, a Huntsville, Alabama-based firm specializing in missile defense and space systems technology. Qualis is known for its role in advancing next-generation missile defense and satellite communications systems, providing key services in modeling, simulation, and testing. The company excels in simulating R

Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2024
The decision to transfer the crew of Boeing's Starliner to a SpaceX mission after the spacecraft malfunctioned is just the latest twist in a long saga that has undermined the credibility of the US aerospace giant. Here is a recap of the setbacks and delays on Starliner's journey to fly a crew to the International Space Station - and how it was unable to bring them back again. - 2014: N

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2024
Boeing Starliner crewmembers Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded aboard the International Space Station since June, will remain there until February, NASA administrators announced Saturday. In weighing whether to allow them to try to return to Earth aboard their malfunctioning Starliner craft or wait until the completion of the upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon mission i

Houston (AFP) Aug 24, 2024
Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner will have to stay six more months and return home with rival SpaceX, NASA said Saturday, in a fresh public relations blow to the crisis-hit aviation giant. The return of Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams had already been delayed for weeks by thruster malfunctions of the Boeing spacecraft

Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2024
SpaceX is coming to Boeing's rescue. The legacy company needing aid from an upstart rival is hardly welcome news to the aerospace giant. Because of problems with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, two astronauts who rode on it to the International Space Station in June will finally return to Earth on a vessel built by Elon Musk's SpaceX. NASA's announcement Saturday of that plan represe

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2024
The violent collapse of massive, rapidly spinning stars could generate detectable gravitational waves, according to new research published in 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters'. Scientists suggest that these waves, resulting from collapsing stars known as collapsars, are just waiting to be discovered by current observatories. These gravitational waves are produced when stars, 15 to 20 tim