Rocket Headed for Space Station Aborts After Failure

A Russian rocket carrying an American astronaut and his Russian counterpart to the international space station aborted the flight shortly after launch because of a booster anomaly......»»

The setback put more pressure on NASA to certify new U.S. vehicles for taking crews to and from space station and made it more dependent on Russia......»»

The rocket had been hurtling towards Earth for a week with no one knowing when or where it would land. The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the core module of China's space station Tianhe, t.....»»

China's space-station rocket will.....»»

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to land in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida near Panama City at 2:56 a.m. ET Sunday......»»

SpaceX Crew-1 NASA astronauts headed home after six-month stay on International Space Station.....»»

China plans 10 more launches to build its space station by the end of 2022. It's not clear whether there's any plan to safely discard the rockets. A Long March-5B Y2 rocket carrying the core module of China's space station, Tianhe, stands at.....»»

China can't send its astronauts to the International Space Station, so it's building its own Earth-orbiting laboratory with 11 rocket launches. The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the core modu.....»»

SpaceX Rocket Launches Astronauts To International Space Station   SpaceX launched its third crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) early Friday morning under darkness.  A SpaceX Crew Dragon aboard a Fal.....»»

The Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station launched aboard the same Falcon 9 rocket booster that carried the astronaut mission before it. Left: The Crew-2 astronauts. Right: A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA's Kennedy Space Cen.....»»

An American entrepreneur, a Canadian investor, and an Israeli businessman will be the crew aboard the SpaceX's Crew Dragon flight to the ISS. Ax1 crew members: Commander Michael López.....»»

An Atlas V rocket made by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Feb. 9, carrying a science probe destined to study the polar regions of the sun. The 182-foot-tall launch vehicle launched the .....»»

The International Space Station soon will receive different kinds of supplies: coffee and hemp.  NASA and Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX plan to launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on March 2 at 1:45 a.m. SpaceX, the rocket com.....»»

Rocket Science: Ride 2 Station, NASA The first manned flight with SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, which aims to allow astronauts to travel between Earth and the International Space Station (I.....»»

SpaceX SpaceX launched 60 of its Starlink satellites into space on Monday. The satellites were carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Starlink is SpaceX's ambitious project to station a network of almost 12,000 sate.....»»

Boeing on Monday morning declared successful its test of the emergency abort system for the spacecraft it’s developing to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, even though only two of the........»»

On Thursday, Russia launched an unmanned rocket carrying its first life-sized humanoid robot to the International Space Station, according to AFP. The robot, named Fedor (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research), will spend 10 days learning t.....»»

Two companies unveil a new deal for NASA space station missions, and an Alabama company has a small role in the journeys......»»

Sierra Nevada Corp, a privately owned defense contractor with spaceflight ambitions, said on Wednesday it picked United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to launch its Dream Chaser space plane on cargo missions to the International Space Station......»»

Hawthorne, California-based rocket company SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station May 1, but it made a change to its booster's landing location after an incident that damaged its Crew Dragon capsule. .....»»