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The world’s most traveled crew transport spacecraft flies again

Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with the Crew-8 mission, sending three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut on a six-month...

For Virgin Galactic, becoming profitable means a pause in flying to space

Enlarge / Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity rocket plane ignites its rocket motor moments after release from a jet-powered carrier aircraft high above New Mexico.Virgin...

Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket finally makes an appearance on the launch pad

Enlarge / Dave Limp, Blue Origin's new CEO, and founder Jeff Bezos observe the New Glenn rocket on its launch pad Wednesday at Cape...

Test flights on tap for Space Perspective’s luxury high-altitude balloon

Enlarge / Space Perspective's first test capsule, Excelsior, has a diameter of approximately 16 feet (4.9 meters).Space Perspective Space Perspective could begin...

SpaceX wants to take over a Florida launch pad from rival ULA

Enlarge / SpaceX's fully-stacked Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster on a launch pad in South Texas.SpaceX One of the largest launch...

A sleuthing enthusiast says he found the US military’s X-37B spaceplane

Enlarge / File photo of an X-37B spaceplane.Boeing It turns out some of the informed speculation about the US military's latest X-37B...

Secret military space programs can be a little less secret, Pentagon says

Enlarge / A delegation of French military officers visited the Combined Space Operations Center in 2022 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.US Space Force/Tech....

Sierra Space is blowing up stuff to prove inflatable habitats are safe

Enlarge / Sierra Space's 300 cubic meter inflatable habitat burst at 77 psi, five times the pressure it would need to handle in space.Sierra...

NASA urged Astrobotic not to send its hamstrung spacecraft toward the Moon

Enlarge / A camera on Astrobotic's Peregrine spacecraft captured this view of a crescent Earth during its mission.Astrobotic Astrobotic knew its first...

Axiom, SpaceX launch third all-private crew mission to space station

Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin the Ax-3 commercial crew mission.Stephen Clark/Ars Technica ...

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