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Home News Spaceflight Crew-4 astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Samantha Cristoforetti on the Crew Dragon "Freedom." (Image credit: SpaceX) The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station have had their launch pushed back again, to April 23. SpaceX and NASA chose that date…

by Jason Rainbow — April 11, 2022 SpaceX launched four batches of Starlink satellites across four separate missions in May. Credit: SpaceX After revolutionizing the launch industry through vertical integration, SpaceX hopes to do the same for satellite broadband with its Starlink megaconstellation. Starlink’s go-it-alone approach contrasts with OneWeb and…

by Park Si-soo — April 11, 2022 In this July 20, 2020, image, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with South Korea’s first military communications satellite, Anasis-2, aboard. South Korea recently signed a contract with SpaceX to launch five reconnaissance satellites by 2025, with the first…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not be joining the Twitter board of directorsTwitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal shared the news of Musk not joining the Twitter board, stating that his input will always be considered whether he is on the board or not.  Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal announced today that Tesla…

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission specialist Jessica Watkins; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 pilot Robert “Bob” Hines; NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren; and ESA (European Space Agency)…

The big picture: Space tourism is quickly developing into a favorite pastime for the few who can afford it. While it might sound like a pipe dream right now, these early flights could pave the way to lowering costs and allow ordinary people to experience it someday. Axiom Space, together…

A retired NASA astronaut and three space tourists are right now tucked inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule above Earth for the first-ever purely commercial mission to the International Space Station. Flames billowed from the sky as the four-person crew were carried into space by a Falcon 9 rocket lifting off…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Ax-1 commercial crew mission. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Strapped in the seats of a SpaceX crew capsule, a retired NASA astronaut and three wealthy paying passengers rocketed into orbit Friday from the Kennedy…

Home News Human Spaceflights CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four private astronauts left Earth this morning (April 8), riding a SpaceX capsule toward the International Space Station on a history-making liftoff that wowed observers. "Wow! It was a beautiful, beautiful launch," Kathy Lueders, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, said during…