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This week, space weather has continued to produce vivid displays of the Northern Lights, which are even more amazing from 250 miles above Earth, where astronauts live and work. At least five strong solar flares with coronal mass ejection throughout the course of the weekend
A detailed inspection of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is ongoing during its inaugural astronaut trip. On June 5, Starliner lifted off, sending NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on a Crew Flight Test (CFT) shakeout voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). Originally scheduled to
When NASA astronauts lifted the Hubble Space Telescope out of the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Discovery and launched it into orbit in 1990, things were considerably different. There were only 5.3 billion people on the planet, the Cold War was coming to an end,
Captain Sunita Williams, an astronaut of Indian descent who enjoys eating samosas in orbit, is prepared to launch into space once more, this time on the Boeing Starliner, a brand-new spaceship. The planned launch window is May 7, 2024, from the Kennedy Space Center, at
The first crewed launch of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule is now scheduled for May 6, five more days later than originally planned. The much awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) of the Starliner mission was scheduled for May 1st by NASA and Boeing. But it isn’t