[ad_1] SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavor sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the launch of the Crew-8 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update at 8:00 pm EST: NASA and SpaceX are pulling out of the launch due to high winds along the ascent corridor. For the second time this … Read more
[ad_1] European Space Agency (ESA) project astronaut Marcus Wandt, who recently returned to Earth after spending approximately three weeks on the International Space Station, has shared a video of him performing a “space waltz.” Wandt, who was part of the Axiom 3 Mission, the first all-European commercial flight to the space station, returned to Earth … Read more
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[ad_1] Turkey’s first astronaut will depart the International Space Station on Wednesday, after spending 18 days at the orbital laboratory as part of a private mission. Alper Gezeravci, a 44-year-old fighter pilot in the Turkish Air Force, and three fellow astronauts were on the Axiom-3 mission, which launched aboard a SpaceX rocket on Jan. 20 … Read more
[ad_1] Very soon, a robot surgeon could begin its orbit around our planet, and although it won’t be a metallic humanoid machine dressed in a white coat and holding a scalpel, its mission is fascinating. On Tuesday (Jan. 30), scientists will send a series of groundbreaking experiments to the International Space Station via Northrop Grumman’s … Read more