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Lift-off from Cape Canaveral AFS of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 is planned for 6:08 a.m. EDT – the opening of a 20 minute launch window – on October 2.

Sebastian Stan and Mackenzie Davis visited the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the actors met with their characters’ real-life counterparts, took a spin in a prototype rover and spoke with the astronauts aboard the international Space Station. This...

“Dragon made history in 2012 when it became the first commercial uncrewed spacecraft to deliver cargo to the space station”, SpaceX wrote on its website. Left to right: actors Mackenzie Davis and Sebastian Stan, astronaut and JSC director Ellen Ochoa, astronaut Mike...

2017 could be the year when private companies would, for the very first time, ferry astronauts to and from the ISS (international space station).

The capsule has an auto-pilot but it can be also manipulated by either the crew or the mission control members on Earth. SpaceX engineers promise that the emergency escape system of the capsule is able to maintain the G forces one experiences during a “ride at...

During the second episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, things got scientific really quickly with SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on the show. Musk said Mars would need to be heated up, either the fast way or the slow way. First, by warming it up, which Musk said...

Today, founder Elon Musk said the SpaceX rocket explosion on June 28 was caused by a faulty strut, destroying over a 4,000-pound cargo, which was bound for the ISS or global Space Station.

The company’s founder and chief executive, Musk told reporters during a Monday briefing that they are looking at a broken strut in the second stage liquid oxygen tank, which was holding a helium tank.

NASA has selected the first four astronauts to train to be launched into space on private rockets, and all four are veterans of space.

Just about two minutes after launch, a launch vehicle failure caused the Falcon 9 rocket to break up on ascent.

Bolden’s spacex-crs-7″ target=”_blank”>statement tells, “We are dissatisfied in the beating of the latest SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the worldwide Space Station”. Musk says that engineers use now a hex editor parsing the data to...

Apart from Ms. Williams, Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley and Eric Boe have been chosen and will be trained for the spaceflights that are commercial.

Sen-NASA has selected four veteran astronauts to train for test flights aboard commercial space taxis under development by SpaceX and Boeing. Each company is guaranteed at least two flights to the ISS after NASA certifies their vehicles as safe. NASA is extensively involved with...

Moreover, there are a number of other resupply missions set to take place over the next few months.

The Falcon 9 launched on Sunday was carrying food and supplies to the global Space Station (ISS).