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‘We have lost a lot of time.’ Former NASA chief says US needs to start over with moon landing plans or risk losing to China (Image Credit: Space.com) Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin pulled no punches about where he sees America’s current Artemis moon landing program in Congressional testimony today. Griffin testified […]
Was Elon Musk in the room where it happened? This senator still wants to know (Image Credit: Space.com) Ed Markey is persistent. In April, during Jared Isaacman’s first nomination hearing for the post of NASA administrator, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts asked repeatedly if SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk was in […]
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Thursday (Dec. 4), sending 28 of them up from California’s central coast. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space […]
See the metal guts of a satellite in this wild X-ray view | Space photo of the day for Dec. 4, 2025 (Image Credit: Space.com) In a hangar outside Zurich, a veteran of low Earth orbit lay under a kind of medical scanner no spacecraft was ever designed for. The patient was […]
Damaged launch pad: How long before Russia can send astronauts to the ISS again? (Image Credit: Space.com) On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), a Russian Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Everything seemed to go well. After all, the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft carrying that […]
Next Blue Origin tourist launch will fly wheelchair user to space for 1st time (Image Credit: Space.com) Michi Benthaus is about to make history. Benthaus, an aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency, is one of the six passengers on Blue Origin‘s next space tourism launch, the company announced today (Dec. 3). […]
The US must beat China to moon, Trump pick for NASA chief Jared Isaacman tells Senate: ‘If we make a mistake, we may never catch up’ (Image Credit: Space.com) Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman just finished his second at-bat in his bid for NASA chief. Isaacman spoke Wednesday (Dec. 3) before the […]
Round 2: Watch Senate hearing for Jared Isaacman’s re-nomination as NASA chief today (Image Credit: Space.com) Chairman Cruz Announces Nominations Hearing for NASA and Commerce Nominees – YouTube Watch On The U.S. Senate will hold a hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman’s re-nomination for NASA chief on today (Dec. 3), […]
SpaceX can launch its Starship megarocket from Florida pad, Air Force says (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX just took a big step toward launching its Starship megarocket from Florida. The U.S. Air Force has given SpaceX permission to develop Space Launch Complex-37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as a launch site […]
China’s 1st reusable rocket explodes in dramatic fireball during landing after reaching orbit on debut flight (Image Credit: Space.com) The first test flight of Landspace’s Zhuque-3 rocket ended in a fiery explosion after successfully reaching orbit. Chinese company Landspace launched its 216-foot (66-meter) stainless steel Zhuque-3 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch […]
