News Archive / Tagged: Lead Stories

• VSS Unity conducts test flight that nearly reaches space

  Jason RhianDecember 13th, 2018

  Virgin Galactic's program designed to kick off space tourism has just reached another milestone with a flight that almost reached the edge of space. 

• Bringing a knife to a spacewalk: Cosmonauts inspect Soyuz leak repair

  Derek RichardsonDecember 12th, 2018

  During a spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts used a knife remove thermal insulation on Soyuz MS-09 in order to inspect a leak repair made earlier in the year.

• SpaceX Demo Flight 1 ‘adjusts’ 10 days

  Jason RhianDecember 11th, 2018

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- As is to be expected with critical missions meant to demonstrate transportation systems for astronauts, things tend to change in the lead up to the big day. Perhaps the most frequent of these - is time.

• New Horizons course correction puts spacecraft on target to Ultima Thule

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 10th, 2018

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the most distant ever course-correction maneuver by any spacecraft on Sunday, Dec. 2, firing its thrusters for just 105 seconds to adjust its velocity by approximately 2.2 miles per hour.

• CRS-16 Dragon arrives at ISS after ground-based communications issue

  Derek RichardsonDecember 8th, 2018

  SpaceX’s CRS-16 Dragon was captured by the space station crew, despite a communications issue prompting a temporary retreat command being issued.

• Orion’s Ascent Abort-2 Crew Module delivered to KSC

  Jason RhianDecember 7th, 2018

  The Crew Module of NASA's Orion spacecraft has arrived at KSC in Florida. Its journey began at Johnson Space Center and will be used to further the agency's deep space exploration ambitions.

• There (almost) and back again: Crew of aborted Soyuz mission reassigned

  Heather SmithDecember 6th, 2018

  NASA has announced that Nick Hague will join Aleksey Ovchinin again for a launch on Feb 28, 2019, after their mission was aborted in October 2018.

• CRS-16 Falcon 9 first stage makes unplanned water landing

  Michael ColeDecember 5th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After 26 straight successful landings of its Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX experienced a landing failure amidst an otherwise successful launch to orbit of the CRS-16 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). 

• With mice well-fed, SpaceX’s CRS-16 mission blasts off but fails to stick landing

  Michael ColeDecember 5th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- Partly cloudy skies along Florida's Space Coast provided a beautiful backdrop for the SpaceX launch of the CRS-16 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). While a success, not everything went according to plan.

• Watch exclusive live coverage of CRS-16 launch

  Jason RhianDecember 5th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX and NASA have a Falcon 9 rocket primed and ready for flight. The mission - to send the CRS-16 Dragon to the International Space Station. SpaceFlight Insider's exclusive webcast will begin at 12:45 p.m. ET (17:45 GMT).

• Rats! SpaceX CRS-16 mission slips again!

  Michael ColeDecember 4th, 2018

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- SpaceX has encountered more than its fair share of scrubs, but the one that pushed the planned flight of the CRS-16 mission back 24 hours - is a doozy.

• SpaceX sets record with launch of 64 satellites on SSO-A

  Curt GodwinDecember 3rd, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- Overcoming numerous delays, SpaceX completed one of its most complex missions yet - the delivery of 64 satellites to a Sun-synchronous orbit.

• Crewed flights to ISS resume with Soyuz MS-11 launch

  Derek RichardsonDecember 3rd, 2018

  Normalcy begins to return to International Space Station operations as the crew of Soyuz MS-11 has successfully launched from Baikonur.

• SpaceX set to launch CRS-16 Dragon to ISS

  Michael ColeDecember 1st, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Elon Musk might not be Santa Claus, but the Expedition 57 crew on board the ISS might consider him to be after the CRS-16 Dragon spacecraft arrives.

• NASA Administrator reveals new commercial plan to explore the Moon

  Jason RhianNovember 29th, 2018

  NASA is working with commercial partners in an effort to produce a lunar transport "market," one designed to further enable scientific exploration of the Moon.