A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 launch.NASA+ Fuel loading is complete on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage, and liquid oxygen [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 launch.NASA+ The crew access arm has retracted, and the Dragon spacecraft’s launch escape system is [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 launch.NASA+ The confirmation that the Dragon crew spacecraft is “go” for launch just came through [...]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 launch.NASA+ The SpaceX closeout team has left the crew access arm, which will soon swing [...]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission train for their upcoming trip to the International Space Station at SpaceX facilities in Florida. They will perform a variety of science aboard the space station upon arrival. SpaceX For nearly 25 years, people have continuously lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies [...]
Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. [...]
View of the NASA Glenn Research Center hangar from the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport runway during a testing flight on Thursday, June 13, 2024. The Operations and Integration Building sits to the hangar’s right.Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian Hanna NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking proposals for the use of its historic aircraft hangar, along [...]
Artemis III, Artemis, Engine Section, VAB, SSPF
NASA astronaut Doug “Wheels” Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson were fully suited while conducting mission-like maneuvers in the full-scale build of the Starship human landing system’s airlock which will be located inside Starship under the crew cabin. Image Credit: SpaceX
NASA astronaut Doug "Wheels" Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson were able to test the agility of the spacesuits by conducting movements and tasks similar to those necessary during lunar surface exploration on Artemis missions, such as operating the full-scale mockup of Starship’s elevator gate. Image Credit: SpaceX [...]
