May 9, 2019 Jeff Bezos unveils ambitious plan to send spaceship to the Moon Jeff Bezos has unveiled an ambitious plan to send a spaceship to the Moon.
May 3, 2019 Astronaut capsule engulfed by flames SpaceX finally confirmed Thursday its crew capsule was destroyed in ground testing two weeks ago and conceded that the accident is “not great news” for the company’s effort to launch astronauts this year.
May 2, 2019 Buzz Aldrin calls for human 'migration' to Mars: ‘We explore, or we expire’ Buzz Aldrin argued that the U.S. should be working towards “the great migration of humankind to Mars,” as a matter of the “ultimate survival” of humanity, in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
May 1, 2019 X-37B military space plane's latest mystery mission passes 600 days The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has now been circling Earth for more than 600 days on its latest mystery mission.
May 1, 2019 Astronaut Terry Virts: How Apollo 11 inspired my space journey Terry Virts was just a year old when Neil Armstrong took and Buzz Aldrin took their historic first steps on the Moon. A few years later, the epic Apollo 11 mission sparked a lifelong passion for space in the youngster, laying the foundations for his future career as an astronaut.
April 30, 2019 'Organs on chips' set for launch to the International Space Station The next resupply mission to the International Space Station will contain sophisticated ‘organs-on-chips’ designed to provide valuable scientific data for future human spaceflight and diseases on Earth.
April 25, 2019 Douglas Cooke: Trump's moon plan is a good one -- too bad his critics (and the media) badly want to derail it Stopping a successful moon mission from occurring under the Trump administration seems to be exactly what some critics want.
April 25, 2019 Russia may soon mothball its most historic launchpad: report Russia may soon decommission its most historic launch site, from which the world's first satellite, Sputnik, was lofted into space.
April 23, 2019 There are toxic fungi in space and no one knows if they're dangerous Potentially dangerous fungi are living on space stations and spacecraft right now — but we have no idea if they're harmful for astronauts and scientists need to do much more research to figure that out.
April 18, 2019 America’s first woman astronaut candidate dead at 88 America’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.
