Space News
Curiosity Crashed, but it's Working Fine Again. NASA Won't Have to Send Astronauts to Turn it off and Back on Again.
Universe Today - 3 Mar 2019 01:22
A few weeks after Curiosity suffered a glitch that put it in safe mode, the rover is once again operating normally. The post Curiosity Crashed, but it’s Working Fine Again. NASA Won’t Have to Send Astronauts to Turn ...
Milestone: Capsule with dummy aboard docks at space station
Phys.org - 3 Mar 2019 20:11
A sleek new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday in a big step toward putting the U.S. back in the business of launching astronauts.
Astronauts Welcome SpaceX's Crew Dragon to Space Station (Ripley and Earth, Too!)
SPACE.com - 3 Mar 2019 19:07
The three-person crew on the International Space Station gave a warm welcome to SpaceX's first Crew Dragon spacecraft today.
50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 9 Launched and Paved the Way for a Lunar Landing
SPACE.com - 3 Mar 2019 19:06
50 years ago, three brave astronauts launched into space as part of Apollo 9. This mission made a future lunar landing possible with groundbreaking testing.
Space Force Proposal Officially Sent to Capitol Hill, Now Come the Questions
SPACE.com - 3 Mar 2019 19:06
Now that the proposal has been kicked over to Congress, DoD faces what could be a harder-than-expected job communicating the Space Force plan to Congress and the public.
Pegasus Rocket Woes Continue to Delay NASA's ICON Mission
SPACE.com - 3 Mar 2019 19:00
A persistent problem with a Pegasus rocket will keep a long-delayed NASA space science mission on the ground until at least this spring.
Space Station Crew Opens Hatch to Crew Dragon After Docking
SpaceRef - 3 Mar 2019 17:16
Aboard the space station, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, and Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 58 commander Oleg Kononenko opened the hatch between the Crew Dragon and the o...
Trump Hails SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch, Says NASA's 'Rocking Again'
SPACE.com - 3 Mar 2019 17:16
President Donald Trump is hailing SpaceX's Crew Dragon launch success.
This Week at NASA: SpaceX Commercial Crew Demo 1 Launch and More
SpaceRef - 3 Mar 2019 16:25
An important step for the Commercial Crew Program, more testing with our Space Launch System rocket engine, and a new show that explores how we do, what we do ... a few of the stories to tell you about -...
Crew Dragon docks with ISS
Space News - 3 Mar 2019 14:17
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station March 3, a little more than a day after its launch from Florida. SpaceNews.com
EELV is no more, it is now 'National Security Space Launch'
Space News - 3 Mar 2019 13:55
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act directed the name change effective March 1. SpaceNews.com
SpaceX Crew Dragon Arrives At The International Space Station
SpaceRef - 3 Mar 2019 13:25
International Space Station's Harmony module forward port via "soft capture" at 5:51 a.m. EST while the station was traveling more than 250 miles over the Pacific Ocean, just north of New Zealand....
Op-Ed | Getting space right is both a national security and an economic question
Space News - 3 Mar 2019 00:34
The next war won't take place on the ground or the skies alone, but will take place in space, too. SpaceNews.com