CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA said Wednesday that it is still deciding whether two astronauts will remain on the International Space Station until early next year and whether their damaged Boeing capsule will be sent back empty. Instead of flying back to Earth on Boeing’s Starliner, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would fly on […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA said Wednesday that it is still deciding whether two astronauts will remain on the International Space Station until early next year and whether their damaged Boeing capsule will be sent back empty. Instead of flying back to Earth on Boeing’s Starliner, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would fly on […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA said Wednesday that it is still deciding whether two astronauts will remain on the International Space Station until early next year and whether their damaged Boeing capsule will be sent back empty. Instead of flying back to Earth on Boeing’s Starliner, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would fly on […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA said Wednesday that it is still deciding whether two astronauts will remain on the International Space Station until early next year and whether their damaged Boeing capsule will be sent back empty. Instead of flying back to Earth on Boeing’s Starliner, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams would fly on […]
NASA officials said at a press conference Wednesday that mission operators are continuing to evaluate whether the Starliner can safely complete the return flight. According to NASA, the Starliner crew could be in space by February The astronauts will work on the International Space Station until NASA decides whether they can return on the Starliner. […]
On June 5, 2024, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams boarded the Boeing Starliner and launched into space. They are the first crew to use this new spacecraft. The plan was to dock with the International Space Station and return to Earth after about two weeks. More than two months have now passed and the […]
The last time I spoke to Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts now stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — was on May 1, 2024. At the time, they were in medical quarantine at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparing for launch on May 6. The plan was for a […]
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared this view of the moon and an aurora from the ISS in August … (+) 11. NASA/Matthew Dominick Our fickle sun is spitting out bursts of light, gifting Earth with spectacular auroras. Observers on Earth are enjoying the light show, but astronauts on the International Space Station are in for […]
International Space Station (Source: NASA/Unsplash) ORANGE, California — Archaeology has officially entered the space age. In a groundbreaking study, researchers have conducted the first archaeological survey of the International Space Station, shedding new light on how humans live and work without gravity. The project, called the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), aimed to understand […]
In a few years, the International Space Station will be the final lost civilization. Sometime after 2030, a SpaceX spacecraft will drag the ISS into Earth’s atmosphere, where heat and friction will tear it apart. A space station the size of a football field, where astronauts from 22 countries have lived and worked for about […]
