News Archive / Tagged: Lead Stories

• Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Cullen DesforgesApril 14th, 2021

  History will have to wait a little longer as the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed by at least a week.

• Crew-2 Dragon mission undergoing final preparations

  Theresa CrossApril 13th, 2021

  SpaceX and NASA are entering final preparations for the second long-duration crew rotation to the International Space Station: the Crew-2 Dragon mission.

• Soyuz MS-18 reaches International Space Station after 2 orbits

  Derek RichardsonApril 9th, 2021

  The Soyuz MS-18 crew took the express lane to the International Space Station, reaching the outpost less the four hours after leaving Earth.

• Cosmonauts still troubleshooting slight air leak aboard ISS

  Derek RichardsonApril 8th, 2021

  Russian cosmonauts are still working to plug a slight air leak aboard the International Space Station, which was first noticed in 2019 and located in 2020.

• SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offers details on Starship SN11 explosion

  Nicholas D'AlessandroApril 7th, 2021

  SpaceX Starship SN11 met a fiery demise last week, like the three iterations before it. Recently, Elon Musk tweeted details on why the prototype exploded.

• NASA conducts Orion water drop tests ahead of Artemis 2

  Matt HaskellApril 7th, 2021

  NASA made a considerable splash Tuesday afternoon by dropping its Orion crew module into a pool of water at its research facility in Langley, Virginia.

• Crew-1 Dragon astronauts take spacecraft for a spin around ISS

  Derek RichardsonApril 5th, 2021

  In one of the final major activities of the Crew-1 mission, its astronaut riders suited up to relocate docking ports to clear the way for the Crew-2 Dragon.

• Virgin Galactic unveils its first ‘SpaceShip III’ suborbital spacecraft

  Matt HaskellApril 5th, 2021

  Last week, Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm owned by Richard Branson, revealed its newest design, SpaceShip III, with the first vehicle in this line dubbed “VSS Imagine.”

• Ingenuity helicopter deployed onto the Martian surface

  Cullen DesforgesApril 5th, 2021

  NASA’s first interplanetary helicopter has touched the surface of Mars for the first time after being deployed from underneath the Perseverance rover.

• Starship SN11 explodes during landing-flip maneuver

  Derek RichardsonMarch 30th, 2021

  Starship SN11 attempted to complete what three previous prototypes could not, launch to 10 kilometers, land and not explode. However, it wasn’t to be.

• Final crew members named for ‘all-civilian’ Inspiration4 mission

  Theresa CrossMarch 30th, 2021

  Billed as the first "all-civilian" trip into space, the full crew complement of the Inspiration4 mission has been revealed.

• Starship SN11 launch delayed because FAA inspector not present

  Nicholas D'AlessandroMarch 29th, 2021

  SpaceX's Starship SN11 appeared ready to fly March 29 as its flaps were unchained and tested with Highway 4 beginning to close down as well.

• SpaceX completes SN11 static fire, flight shifts to NET Monday

  Nicholas D'AlessandroMarch 26th, 2021

  Starship SN11 was set to perform a same-day double header on Friday, March 26, combining a static fire and test flight in Boca Chica, Texas.

• Engineers detail plans for Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight

  Michael McCabeMarch 24th, 2021

  Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover is safely on Mars, all eyes are shifting toward the deployment of a small technology demonstration, a drone-like helicopter called Ingenuity.

• Friday Flyday: Starship SN11 launch plans cancelled for March 24, 25

  Nicholas D'AlessandroMarch 23rd, 2021

  The Starship SN11 high-altitude test flight window has shifted to the right by a day as of this writing with a launch now no earlier than March 25.