Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle. A new documentary shows how she got there

‘Spacewoman’ chronicles how Collins persevered against odds to become the first female space shuttle pilot and commander. The ...

Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant

When it comes to space debris, what goes up is coming down more often – and not safely. When spacecraft launch, some components, including nonreusable rocket boosters, are jettisoned to decrease ...
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SpaceX will drop 20 dummy satellites and two camera probes on Starship’s first V3 flight — built to photograph the heat shield as it bakes during reentry

Somewhere over the Indian Ocean, if everything goes right, two small camera probes will separate from a Starship upper stage ...

Scaled-up SpaceX Starship megarocket finds mixed success in debut test flight

The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket came to a dramatic close, with the spacecraft managing to complete a ...

For SpaceX, the stakes of this week’s Starship rocket test flight are sky-high

SpaceX plans to launch a new version of its Starship rocket — a prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its astronauts to the moon — on Tuesday.
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Starship V3 will deploy 22 Starlink simulators on Flight 12 — and the last two are designed to photograph the heat shield as it bakes during reentry

SpaceX plans to pack 22 Starlink mass simulators inside the payload bay of its first full-scale Starship V3 vehicle for ...

3 astronauts from China return to Earth after nearly 7 months in space, a record for a Chinese crew

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after spending seven months in space. They set a record for the longest ...
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US firm successfully completes second hypersonic capsule reentry for defense payloads

Varda Space Industries, a California-based startup working on the futuristic orbital economy, successfully completed ...

An astronaut suddenly couldn’t speak in space. What does that mean for future missions?

A health scare prompted the first ever early return from the International Space Station for a medical reason. Does it change ...
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'It was quite a light show!' NASA astronaut spies dramatic fireball from the International Space Station (photos)

"I think it must have been some piece of orbital debris or a satellite breaking up as it entered the atmosphere." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...
PC World

Windows 11 still runs on code from the 1990s, Microsoft admits

PCWorld reports that Windows 11 still relies on code from the 1990s, particularly the Win32 API from Windows 95, for basic functions like right-clicking. Microsoft CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledges ...
Live Science

NASA just released 12,000 more Artemis II photos ‪—‬ here are a dozen of our favorites

For 10 days in April, NASA's Artemis II crew took a record-breaking trip around the far side of the moon and back. And like any group of friends on an epic spring break odyssey, the astronauts took ...