NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover took a space walk outside the International Space Station on Saturday to upgrade the lab’s communications and cooling system. Walking about 250 miles from Earth, lasted about seven hours. Struggling with obscure electrical connectors, Hopkins helped plug and secure the four thick power …
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Seven astronauts are celebrating the holiday season next to the International Space Station, but that doesn’t stop any holiday cheer on Earth. The expedition cre members are starting the day, but NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Waker and Kate Rubins, and astronaut Sochi Noguchi from Japan took some …
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SpaceX launched a record workout by launching a 26-year-old Falcon 9 rocket from Saturday, the second in less than a week, in which a satellite of the classified National Reconnaissance Office fee was put into orbit. The NROL-108 payload added a surprising delay to SpaceX’s launch manifesto. The builder and …
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Wearing a giant spacecraft, the Russian two cosmonauts began next year in preparation for an almost identical PIRS module to use the International Space Station’s Peace Po King King compartment for the first time on the spacewalk on Wednesday. A new laboratory module will be erected in its place later. …
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To control a possible tropical storm, NASA is moving forward with plans to bring two astronauts and their SpaceX Ferry Back to Earth Sunday with a dip in the Gulf of Mexico. It will be the first pilot reentry of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and NASA’s first ocean landing in …
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