There will be a delay of NASA’s returning astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, due to numerous mechanical issues of the Boeing Starliner and, stressing the safety of the astronauts, […]
Astronaut Missions
Virgin Galactic completes 12th spaceflight
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) has completed the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12th mission to date, carrying one researcher and three private astronauts — the ‘Galactic 07’ […]
NASA ‘indefinitely grounds’ Boeing’s Starliner launch with astronauts
The first astronaut mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner is indefinitely grounded. NASA announced that the Starliner will not launch on May 25, which was the latest date given as the launch […]
ULA’s Boeing Starliner launch for NASA astronauts delayed again adding to the $1.5 billion over budget
Starliner’s mission carrying two NASA astronauts had been scheduled for liftoff from Florida last week until a technical issue with its Atlas 5 rocket prompted a delay to Friday, May […]
ULA’s UPDATE valve vibration and launching NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to ISS
NASA’s statement regarding the scrub indicated that the two astronauts flying the CFT mission, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will remain at the Kennedy Space Center in pre-flight quarantine for […]
ULA’s UPDATE: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test targets new launch date
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test now is targeted to launch no earlier than 6:16 p.m. EDT Friday, May 17, to the International Space Station. Following a thorough data review completed […]
SCRUBBED after ULA seated NASA’s Wilmore and Williams in Starliner ‘room with a view’
ULA’s Launch director Tom Heter III has scrubbed tonight’s Starliner launch. Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of the flight and pad crew, we scrubbed the Crew […]
NASA’s Wilmore and Williams ready for ‘a room with a view’ as ULA counts down to Starliner launch
Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the first crewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The mission is planned to lift off […]
ULA launch is imminent as first crewed Boeing Starliner mission readies for ISS
ULA’s L-2 report states that everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the first crewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The mission […]
UPDATE 2: Success as SpaceX transports first humans for 2024 with Axiom’s first all European commercial astronauts
After one day’s delay, SpaceX on Thursday, January 18 launched Falcon 9’sAxiom Space’s Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy […]