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‘Challenger’ Review: How the Space Shuttle Disaster Happened
The Wall Street Journal· 7 hours agoMr. Higginbotham appropriately ends his long, moving narrative on that downbeat note. NASA...
NASA's Space Shuttle program, which spanned from 1981 to 2011, took a revolutionary approach by...
Bennington Banner· 6 days agoNASA's Space Shuttle program, which spanned from 1981 to 2011, took a revolutionary approach by...
Boeing Plans To Fly Humans To The ISS Next Week
Science Friday· 19 hours agoWhen NASA retired its space shuttle program in 2011, the agency had to find a new way to transport astronauts and supplies to the International ...
How Much Does It Cost to Launch a Falcon 9 (and Other Rockets)?
Sci Fi Wire· 5 hours agoOver the last decade or so, companies like SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and others have made significant...
How 'safe mode' protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAs for fixing the telescope, all repairs must be done remotely—some telescopes, like JWST, are...
Officials describe telltale ‘buzz’ that led to last-minute scrub of Boeing Starliner’s crewed launch
CNN via AOL· 3 days agoSpaceX ultimately beat Boeing to the launchpad, carrying out its crewed flight test of the Crew...
Commercial Space Stations Approach Launch Phase
IEEE Spectrum· 10 hours agoBlue Origin is one of a number of private-sector actors aiming to harbor commercial activities in low Earth orbit (LEO) as the creaking and leaking...
Boeing’s Starliner launch – delayed again – will be an important milestone for commercial...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSpace Station for about a week. Part of NASA’s commercial crew program, this long-delayed mission...
Historic Boeing Starliner spacecraft launch scrubbed
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe SpaceX Dragon crew capsule was the first private enterprise to deliver astronauts to the ISS in 2020. “This is all a part of our commercial...
Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch
The Raw Story· 3 days agoAstronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped in their seats preparing for liftoff when the call for a "scrub" came, in order to give engineers time to investigate unusual readings ...