Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by U.S. company SpaceX. The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Elon Musk's SpaceX on the first crewed flight ...
SpaceX ready to launch astronauts into space for the first time
In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But Elon Musk's SpaceX defied expectations — and on Wednesday hopes to make history by ferrying two NASA astronauts into space, the first crewed flight from U.S. soil in nine long years. US President Donald Trump will be among ...
Space exploration’s next frontier: Remote-controlled robonauts
As Japan’s second female astronaut to fly up in the Space Shuttle Discovery, Naoko Yamazaki didn’t expect to spend a quarter of her time dusting, feeding mice and doing other menial jobs. It can cost more than $430 million a year to keep an astronaut ...
NASA on Friday picked a new space capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX to ferry cargo and supplies to the agency's planned lunar space station, a crucial building block to its goals to build a permanent post on the moon and mount future missions to ...
SpaceX announces partnership to send four tourists into deep orbit
SpaceX announced a new partnership Monday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen in history has gone, without disclosing the date or price tag. The company signed a deal with Space Adventures, which is based in Washington and has served as ...
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has 'critical software defects,' NASA finds
NASA is reviewing Boeing's software engineering, and it doesn't like what it sees. Lurking behind 1 million lines of code for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lies a deficient development process that led to two software flaws during a failed test flight, the U.S. space agency ...
Japanese billionaire Maezawa pulls out of dating show that promised the moon
Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a documentary on his search for a girlfriend to travel with him on a voyage around the moon aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing "mixed feelings" about the project. This month, the 44-year-old announced he was seeking ...
Former Zozo fashion retailer Yusaku Maezawa seeks girlfriend for 2023 SpaceX voyage
Call it "The Bachelor: Lunar Edition." In the latest attention-grabbing stunt by Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his search for a girlfriend to join him on a voyage around the moon will be the subject of a new documentary program. Maezawa, 44, who sold his ...
Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule fails key test of reaching space station
Boeing Co.'s new astronaut capsule failed on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in the embattled aerospace giant's race to send humans to the outpost. The CST-100 Starliner astronaut capsule was ...
Boeing faces huge test with Friday's launch of Starliner to ISS
NASA's effort to resume flying American astronauts on American spacecraft — something that hasn't happened since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 — faces a major test this weekend. Over the past decade, a lot of attention has been paid to billionaire space entrepreneurs ...
Elon Musk returns to testify in defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweets
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk returned to court on Wednesday to resume testifying at a trial to decide whether he defamed a British diver whom the Silicon Valley billionaire called "pedo guy" on Twitter. Flanked by half a dozen men, the 48-year-old South African-born entrepreneur ...
Boeing successfully tests Starliner space capsule abort system
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule successfully performed an emergency abort test Monday, meeting a key requirement before it can take U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year. The test took place in the New Mexico desert at the White Sands Missile ...
