[ad_1] Update 7:41 a.m. Thursday: Overnight, NASA officials postponed the Crew-8 mission until 11:16 p.m. Saturday, citing strong winds and waves along the Dragon spacecraft’s flight path. Original story: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 is ready to launch on its six-month mission to the International Space Station, extending an ongoing legacy of low-Earth orbit that many Americans … Read more
[ad_1] Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus robotic spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Thursday (February 1), and the encounter was livestreamed. Cygnus launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday (Jan. 30), kicking off a 40-hour orbital chase. That chase came to an end at … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX will launch a private cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station this week and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch Northrop Grumman’s latest Cygnus robotic freighter on Tuesday (January 30) at 12:07 pm EST (1707 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. You … 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