Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore said Tuesday he did not think politics played any role in the crew’s extended mission, but he did not directly address earlier comments by President Trump and Elon Musk that the crew had been “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration. “Obviously, we’ve heard some of these different things that…
China would assist Pakistan in selecting and training astronauts and the chosen candidates would then travel to China for further training, the China Manned Space Engineering Office said on Friday after the signing of a cooperation agreement in Islamabad. Later, one or more of them will join a Chinese crew for a short-term mission aboard…
NASA astronaut Suni Williams says “we don’t feel abandoned” in space in response to Trump – CBS News Watch CBS News Contrary to a recent social media post from President Trump, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Barry “Butch” Wilmore don’t feel “abandoned” in space, despite a mission that’s been extended from a…
Nov 16, 2024 09:53 AM IST Biden acknowledged the signing of the Artemis Accords and discussed various global issues, including tensions in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine. At the APEC summit in Peru, President Joe Biden cracked a joke about being sent to space to rescue astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded…
As NASA plans to decommission the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of the decade, the next generation of orbital enterprise prepares to launch. Rocket-builder Blue Origin is aiming to have the first commercial space station—a solar-powered, “mixed-use business park” called Orbital Reef—operational by 2030. Floating 311 miles above the Earth, the 29,300-cubic-foot installation…
The SpaceX vehicle that next year will ferry the Starliner astronauts back to Earth is preparing to finally depart for the International Space Station as early as this weekend. Aboard the company’s Dragon capsule will be two Crew-9 astronauts embarking to the orbital outpost for a six-month rotation to perform a slew of research and…
MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Monday in Kazakhstan, ending a record-breaking stay for the Russian pair. The capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe about 3 1/2 hours after undocking from the ISS in an apparently trouble-free descent. In the last stage of…
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air…