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By Eric M. Johnson and Joey Roulette SEATTLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Monday that one of three parachutes failed to open during a crucial unmanned test of the CST-100 Starliner, which the company is developing to ferry astronauts to and from …

The CST-100 Starliner currently sits on a test stand at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range awaiting a pad abort test scheduled for 6 a.m. PT. The test is designed to ensure that the ship's four abort engines and control thrusters will fire in the case of …

SpaceX is edging closer to the day that its Crew Dragon capsule carries astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). A video (below) posted online on Sunday showed a recent parachute test simulating what would happen if one of the capsules four main …

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The Crew Dragon capsule will still be able to land with just three working parachutes. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET What do you do if your spaceship comes in for a landing and one of your parachutes doesn't work right? You hope the rest will do th…

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and its service module sit atop the test stand at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico ahead of the company's Pad Abort Test.  Boeing You can watch a big test of Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft Monday as NASA pushe…

Elon Musk isn't feeling Twitter right now. James Martin/CNET Elon Musk seems to be having an existential social media crisis. The usually Twitter-happy founder of Tesla and SpaceX announced Friday he is "going offline" after first tweeting "Not sure about g…

Enlarge/ The Electron launch vehicle is ready to soar. 0 with 0 posters participating Welcome to Edition 2.21 of the Rocket Report! As always, there are intriguing developments in the world of lift this week. We particularly liked the Russian plans to devel…

Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. SpaceX has been working on some variant of the Big Falcon Rocket for almost a decade, with a publicly announced architecture for three years. The target performance figures are on the Starship w…