The Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) – the first crewed mission of CST-100 Starliner, Boeing’s partially reusable spacecraft – was supposed to fly two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore (spacecraft commander) and Sunita Williams (pilot) on a week long test...
Commercial space station operator Vast has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launches of its first space station and a crew mission (announced on 10 May). A Falcon 9 will launch the space station module called Haven-1 in the late summer of 2025. A second launch...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 2137 GMT on 21 May, carrying the Crew Dragon – Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2), a private astronaut mission, to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew Dragon...
Much changed on Earth and in space during 2022. In July the James Webb Telescope, the largest optical telescope in space, delighted the world with stunning infrared images, revealing the most detailed view ever of the Universe. After a series of stalled attempts,...
Blue Origin successfully launched its suborbital vehicle New Shepard NS-21 from Texas, USA at 1325 GMT on 4 June 2022. The crewed vehicle carried six people – actually participants rather than a crew – on its autonomous mission to suborbital space and...
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 with the first privately crewed mission to the ISS from the Kennedy Space Centre, USA, at 1517 GMT on 8 April. The first stage of the Falcon 9 (B1062 on its fifth flight) successfully landed on the drone barge “A Shortfall of Gravitas”...
