Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly who became famous for mission the failed Apollo 13 mission in 1970 over a German measles health scare, but later became a hero to its rescue on the ground, has died at the age of 87. Mattingly had been a US Navy pilot, test pilot, and...
Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were alerted to a minor alarm on 9 October when they saw snowflakes outside the window of the station. The cause was a coolant leak on the external back-up radiator of the Nauka (MLM-U) module, according to Russian...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, USA at 1419 GMT on 13 October 2023. The vehicle was carrying Psyche. Psyche is a spacecraft that will be specifically study the metallic asteroid of the same name: 16 Psyche. The...
With the hatch closed at 0441 GMT on 27 September 2023, Soyuz MS-23 undocked from the Prichal module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 0754 GMT with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio onboard. Soyuz MS-23 had...
The OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has returned samples to Earth, fulfilling one of its main objectives seven years after it was launched in September 2016. After a two-year outbound journey, it went into orbit around Bennu in December 2018. The following...
After a couple of days delay due to ground weather issues, Crew Dragon – NASA Crew 6 undocked with the International Space Station (ISS) – its home for the last six months – at 1105 GMT on 3 September 2023 ahead of its descent back to Earth. Aboard...
