On May 6, Boeing intends to send the first Starliner space capsule with astronauts into orbit, Reuters reports. Starliner is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 22:34 p.m. ET. The live broadcast will be available here. About 10 popular misconceptions about space...
Officials from the Russian space agency Roscosmos have decided to postpone the launch of the spacecraft. The ship is meant to replace one deemed not safe enough to carry astronauts from the ISS to Earth, CNN reports. After preparation, the new Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will deliver three…
At Edwards Air Force Base in California, the American company Sierra Nevada conducted flight tests of the Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft. This was reported on the company's website. During the test flight, the truck was lifted into the air by a helicopter, then the ship made an independent descent. ...
The day will come when the Dream Chaser spacecraft, assembled in the USA, will go into space with astronauts and cargo on board. The project is headed by Eren Ozmen, one of America's most successful entrepreneurs, co-owner and president of a space systems company and ...
Private space company SpaceX has announced the opening of tourist flights to the moon. The first 2 tourists who have already paid for the trip will fly to the Moon in 2018. At the same time, SpaceX is not yet ready for either a spacecraft for flights or a rocket capable of sending it to an Earth satellite, writes meduza.io. SpaceX's long flight will send space ...
The Russian Progress M-27M spacecraft left earth orbit and burned up in the dense layers of the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on Friday at 10.04 in the afternoon. “Entry into the dense layers of the atmosphere occurred at 160 orbits over the central part of the Pacific Ocean,” said...
A service has appeared on the Internet that allows you to monitor online the fall of the Russian space truck Progress M-27M. Using Google maps, www.n2yo.com displayed a ship icon showing the trajectory of an uncontrolled descent. As reported, after launch, the Soyuz launch vehicle failed to bring Progress M-27M to ...
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and American astronaut Scott Kelly, who are on the ISS, said that the Progress spacecraft began to fall and it was no longer possible to establish contact with it. According to Kelly, the out-of-control space truck will soon return to the planet's atmosphere. "Progress"…