A rover retrospective: Turning trials to triumphs in 2024 ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 581 words 4 votes
Rocket Lab asks NASA to open up Mars Sample Return to commercial competition ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 760 words 8 votes
NASA launches Europa Clipper mission to investigate namesake Jupiter's moon, a potentially habitable ocean world ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 31 votes
Starship Launch 5 successfully caught by launch tower ~space spaceflight.commercial rocketry Article 396 words 38 votes
47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 53 votes
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission looked doomed. Could engineers save it? ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 1816 words 7 votes
Boeing’s Starliner will perform a unique ‘breakout burn’ as it returns to earth on friday, without astronauts ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 614 words 20 votes
NASA's Boeing crew flight test re-entry and landing ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed Video 5 votes
Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing's Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing ~space spaceflight.crewed Article 525 words 53 votes
SpaceX accomplishes first soft splashdown of Starship, Super Heavy Booster on Flight 4 mission ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.experimental rocketry Article 2093 words 35 votes
Boeing launches long-delayed Starliner capsule with two NASA astronauts on board ~space spaceflight.crewed rocketry Article 745 words 24 votes
The dearMoon project and mission has officially been cancelled ~space spaceflight.private Link 27 votes
NASA finds more issues with Boeing’s Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1 ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed rocketry Article 567 words, published May 25 2024 17 votes
The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed rocketry Article 950 words 29 votes
Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch ~space spaceflight.crewed spaceflight.commercial rocketry Article 556 words 20 votes
On-demand nutrient production system for long-duration space missions ~food Article 314 words 12 votes
NASA’s Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 486 words 39 votes
Fifty years later, this Apollo-era antenna still talks to Voyager 2 ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 1218 words 14 votes
United Launch Alliance to launch final Delta Heavy IV rocket today (in less than an hour, 1315 ET) ~space spaceflight.commercial rocketry Link 10 votes
Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration ~space spaceflight Article 969 words, published Mar 6 2024 8 votes
Quick thinking and a stroke of luck averted a moon lander disaster for Intuitive Machines ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 649 words 19 votes
US returns to the Moon with commercial moon landing (gifted link) ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 372 words 36 votes
Flipped bit could mark the end of Voyager 1‘s interstellar mission ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 402 words 14 votes
After three years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission ends ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 954 words 26 votes
US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last years ~space spaceflight.military Article 551 words 24 votes
I was scared to say this to NASA... (but I said it anyway) ~space spaceflight rocketry Video 1:05:20 25 votes
Norway inaugurated its northern Andøya spaceport Thursday as commercial launch competition on continental Europe heats up ~space spaceflight.commercial rocketry Article 765 words 10 votes
SpaceX to the US Federal Aviation Administration: the industry needs you to move faster ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 1184 words, published Oct 17 2023 23 votes
In a first, NASA's Perseverance rover makes breathable oxygen on Mars ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 522 words 18 votes
NASA detects signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact due to wrong command ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 752 words 46 votes
NASA’s Voyager 2 is experiencing an unplanned ‘communications pause’ expected to last until October 15 ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 358 words 28 votes
The Perseverance Mars rover collected its twentieth sample today ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 324 words 19 votes
NASA prepares for historic asteroid sample delivery on Sept. 24, 2023 ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 11 votes
Voyager engineers keep on tickin' in new documentary 'It's Quieter in the Twilight' ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 516 words 8 votes
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas ~space spaceflight.commercial rocketry Article 242 words 21 votes
NASA’s Perseverance rover deposits first sample on Mars surface ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 143 words 4 votes
NASA and European Space Agency agree on next steps to return Mars samples to Earth ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 152 words 6 votes
Edinburgh-based Skyrora got its suborbital Skylark L rocket successfully off an Icelandic launch pad – but the booster didn't go far, falling into the Norwegian Sea ~space rocketry spaceflight.suborbital Article 521 words 4 votes
British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant a licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever rocket launch ~space rocketry spaceflight.suborbital Article 1146 words 3 votes
How Japan managed to launch rockets into orbit without steering ~space spaceflight.scientific rocketry Video 14:29, published Apr 5 2022 5 votes
NASA awards Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and Nanoracks with contracts to build private space stations ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 293 words 7 votes
A space startup that wants to throw rockets into space ~space spaceflight rocketry Video 11:08, published Nov 10 2021 16 votes
Russian actor and director back on earth after two weeks filming first film in space aboard the International Space Station ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed Article 392 words 13 votes