Crew Dragon brings four long-duration crew members to space station
The arrival of Crew 8 sets the stage for four other Crew Dragon fliers to return to Earth next week to wrap up a nearly 200-day flight.
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The arrival of Crew 8 sets the stage for four other Crew Dragon fliers to return to Earth next week to wrap up a nearly 200-day flight.
American astronauts aren’t heading back to the moon just yet. NASA’s pricey Artemis mission is facing technical challenges. The space agency is now working with both SpaceX and Blue Origin.
SpaceX launched three Falcon 9 rockets within 20 hours, including two Monday just one hour and 50 minutes apart.
The Crew 8 launch is first of two planned crew rotation flights needed to replace five of the lab's seven long-duration fliers.
With an on-time launch Sunday, the Crew 8 fliers will reach the International Space Station early Tuesday.
American astronauts aren't heading back to the moon just yet. NASA's pricey Artemis mission is facing technical challenges. The space agency is now working with both SpaceX and Blue Origin.
The four Crew 8 fliers will make another attempt to get off the ground Sunday.
Rough seas and high winds prompt NASA to delay launch of three-man one-woman crew to the International Space Station.
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut plan to spend six months aboard the orbital outpost.
Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based private company, is attempting to land its Odysseus lander on the moon Thursday. If successful, it will also mark the first U.S. moon landing since 1972 and first ever by a private company. CBS News space consultant William Harwood breaks down what to expect.
History was made Thursday as the U.S. returned to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport joins CBS News to examine the lunar lander mission.
The U.S. successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon Thursday for the first time since 1972. The craft, dubbed "Odysseus," is operated by the private company Intuitive Machines. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins with more.
SpaceX is maintaining a rapid-fire launch pace while gearing up to launch four fresh crew members to the International Space Station.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a privately-built moon lander left the Earth's atmosphere early Thursday. If all goes well, it will land on the moon in one week, the first U.S. spacecraft to do so in over half a century. Christian Davenport, a reporter covering NASA and the space industry for the Washington Post's financial desk, joined CBS News to discuss the launch.
The third commercial station flight chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space ends with picture-perfect Atlantic Ocean splashdown.
The spacecraft's instruments will study how Earth's oceans, atmosphere and land masses interact and how that interaction impacts climate change.
After multiple weather delays, the Ax-3 crew was cleared for undocking and return to Earth on Friday to close out an extended mission.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Tuesday, transporting a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship into space with science gear, equipment and crew supplies, including ice cream, fresh fruit and cheese, which should reach the International Space Station Thursday morning.
Northrop Grumman's 20th space station cargo mission is delivering 8,200 pounds of needed crew supplies and equipment.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, commander of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, talks to CBS News' Mark Strassmann about following her 6th-grade space dreams.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an all-European crew of four blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday, headed for the International Space Station. The crew will spend about two weeks aboard the ISS conducting experiments on behalf of the Houston-based company Axiom Space.
A SpaceX crew took off Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to the International Space Station. CBS News space consultants Bill Harwood, CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez and Alabama Public Radio news director Pat Duggins join with analysis.
NASA is preparing for a commercially-built craft to land on the moon's surface for the first time as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, joined CBS News to discuss the launch.
SpaceX fired its first rocket of 2024 Tuesday, launching 21 Starlink satellites, including ones the company hopes will act like a cell phone tower in space. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood has more.
Labor officials allege SpaceX illegally dismissed workers who publicly condemned Elon Musk's tweets as an "embarrassment."