What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule ...

SpaceX launched Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission on June 25, and with it India once again entered history books as IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is one of the crew members onboard. NASA astronaut ...

Live updates from the launch of the Ax-4 mission. The long delayed Axiom Space Mission 4 crew lifted off at 2:31 a.m. on June ...

The remains of more than 160 deceased people reached orbit yesterday on a spacecraft that hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket.

The Time a Pickup Pulled the Space Shuttle. Posted: June 5, 2025 | Last updated: June 5, 2025. Endeavour’s 26th mission was a lot slower and a lot shorter than the previous 25, but it was still ...

The parachute system, long dormant, almost certainly won’t deploy. After five decades in space, it’s unclear how the hardware has weathered time and cosmic radiation. Our skies are full of junk ...

The X-38—had it gone operational—would not have been the first reusable spacecraft. But it helped lay the groundwork for future space programs’ emphasis on reusability.

Space Shuttle. Season 7 Episode 1 | 26m 39s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s journey is traced from its origins. Aired 01/07/2025 ...

Classroom Activity for the NOVA program MARS Dead or Alive: In Slowing Things Down, students investigate three variables affecting a parachute's rate of descent and then design a parachute that ...

The crew planned to return home in mid-March aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Days earlier, they made a ship-to-ship call with shuttle Columbia , flying the STS-107 microgravity research mission.

The propulsion and parachute systems are the Starliner’s main issues. The propulsion system controls the spacecraft’s movements in space, using puffs of volatile gas, or propellant, to make minute ...

Eileen Collins, mission commander, looks over a checklist on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999. Credit: NASA. Twenty ... listens to a briefing on parachute ejection in 1990.