International Space Station (ISS)

By Mark Carreau
The mission is intended to complete certification of the two-stage rocket by the U.S. Space Force for national security missions beginning by year’s end.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Starliner astronauts have completed configuration of the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft now docked to the International Space Station.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Crew-9 Dragon Freedom capsule autonomously docked with the station, delivering a NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut for a five-month tour of duty.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut began a 28-hr. trip to the International Space Station. In six months they will bring the Starliner CST-100 crew home.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov are slated to lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:17 p.m. EDT.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The football-field-sized orbital lab must be safely deorbited after transitioning its research and technology activities to multiple commercial successors.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Launch of the next U.S. crew transport to the International Space Station is being delayed until no earlier than Sept. 28 due to an expected large hurricane.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The agreement was announced Sept. 24 at the Burjeel Institute for Global Health in New York.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 crew transport capsule descended into Kazakhstan early Sept. 23, returning two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut back to Earth .
Space Exploration

By Brian Everstine
Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s new CEO, announced the move in a statement to employees just before the close of business on Sept. 20.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine panel also acknowledged the mission’s extreme challenges and received initial comments.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting Oct. 4 to launch its second Vulcan-Centaur rocket.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
James Voss, one of the committee’s 10 members, raised the question about whether another Crew Flight Test (CFT) will be required.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams say they have accepted the challenges of their extended stay on the International Space Station.
Operations & Safety

Readers write about Lockheed Martin F-22 upgrades, spacesuit standardization and Boeing C-suite compensation.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
The EVA was the highlight of a five-day charter organized and financed by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a two-member SpaceX Crew-9 team to the International Space Station.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Soyuz MS-26 launched to and docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 11.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Such activities are intended to advance science and technology, underscore U.S. leadership in the space domain and enrich the space economy.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
Starliner is to undock from the nine-person ISS on Sept. 6 at 6:04 p.m. EDT.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Reports of a mysterious pulsing sound onboard Boeing's Starliner have been identified as speaker feedback from the ISS audio configuration.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Uncertainties about the spacecraft’s thruster performance remain after a failure during the first ISS docking attempt.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau, Irene Klotz
Two NASA astronauts conducting a flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth in February aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A multistep solicitation seeks proposals from academia, industry and government agencies, for 2-3 awards valued at up to $4 million for health concerns.
Space