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Solar sails could make new deep space missions possible. One potential application is a “space weather buoy” between the Earth and the Sun.

Is NASA preparing to get more serious about hydrogen? The answer is: maybe.

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.

SpaceX is suspending Falcon rocket launches planned for early October while investigating an anomaly that occurred during launch of the Crew-9 mission Sept. 28.

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.

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.

Scientists believe the ocean under Europa’s frozen surface may harbor life. The Europa Clipper spacecraft will travel there to gather data and assess chemicals.

Culberson has played a pivotal role in the quest to learn if Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moon Europa has the ingredients for life.

The mission, dubbed Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY), is planned for launch in late 2026.

The football-field-sized orbital lab must be safely deorbited after transitioning its research and technology activities to multiple commercial successors.

NASA’s milestone-setting TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) mission has come to a close.

A HWB has emerged as one of the most promising potential zero-emission airliner concepts from a NASA study of commercially viable designs.

Financier and Mission Commander Jared Isaacman is eyeing a more ambitious spacewalk for his next flight.

Released Sept. 24, the 27-page audit makes five recommendations.

The agreement was announced Sept. 24 at the Burjeel Institute for Global Health in New York.

The static test fire at Cape Canaveral SFS marked Blue Origin’s first fueling of a New Glenn rocket stage with flight propellants, and the first engine burn of an integrated flight stage.

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 .

Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s new CEO, announced the move in a statement to employees just before the close of business on Sept. 20.

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

Management asserts that the $4.7 billion deal will lead to growth in new markets while investors are keen to see a payoff.

The service is close to identifying the launch providers eligible to send nearly 50 future national security missions to space.

Initial findings from studies of space radiation measurements taken during NASA’s 2022 Artemis I lunar mission were published Sept. 18 in the journal Nature.

James Voss, one of the committee’s 10 members, raised the question about whether another Crew Flight Test (CFT) will be required.

The firm, fixed-price multiple award task order contract becomes effective Oct. 1.

Inside a drive/fly eVTOL; NASA joins GoAero Prize; engine lubrication in a pod; and lithium-ion device fires on the rise.