NASA craft to face heat-shield test on its first astronaut flight next year

The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...
Space Coast Daily

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Space Shuttle Columbia Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39A Over 40 Years Ago

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
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NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
Ars Technica

With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...

For the 1st time ever, a person who uses a wheelchair will fly to space

Blue Origin will make history when it sends the first person who uses a wheelchair into space on its next mission.
Orlando Sentinel

Sierra Space Dream Chaser’s NASA deal upended, 1st flight pushed to late 2026

Sierra Space had been looking to join SpaceX and Northrop Grumman as one of three commercial resupply partners for NASA aiming to fly its Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Space Coast Daily

Artemis II Flight Crew, Support Teams Complete Pre-Launch Demonstration

NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year.