Four private astronauts dock at ISS
A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying four private astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday. The group includes the first Saudi woman in space.
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A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying four private astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday. The group includes the first Saudi woman in space.
Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced astronaut, is going back to space commanding the Ax-2 private mission to the International Space Station. Her crew includes Knoxville, Tennessee, entrepreneur John Shoffner and two government astronauts from Saudi Arabia. Mark Strassmann reports.
Peggy Whitson, the most experienced astronaut in U.S. history, is set to launch to the International Space Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Sunday, leading a crew that includes a retired businessman and two Saudi Arabian astronauts.
It is the second "private astronaut mission," or PAM, to the International Space Station chartered by Axiom and sanctioned by NASA, which is trying to encourage private-sector development of low-Earth orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched 50 Starlink satellites into orbit from California on Wednesday.
Chandler Halderson was excited about a new job offer he said he had with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. When his parents started asking questions about college — they disappeared. (Editor's note: In April 2023, two of Chandler Halderson's convictions related to hiding his parents' remains were vacated on procedural grounds. Halderson continues to serve a life sentence with no possibility of parole for the murder and dismemberment of his parents.)
SpaceX's Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, exploded minutes after launching on its maiden flight. CBS News' Mark Strassmann shows us why SpaceX still considers the test flight a success.
The SpaceX Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, exploded in midair Thursday morning just minutes after its first-ever launch in Texas.
SpaceX launched its 500-foot-tall Starship, by far the world's most powerful rocket, on a test flight Thursday morning from its launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas. It lifted off but then failed in a midair explosion. Watch how the live stream of the launch unfolded.
The Starship rocket is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
A massive Starship rocket built by SpaceX exploded above the Gulf of Mexico just minutes after blasting off Thursday morning. CBS News senior space analyst Bill Harwood joins Errol Barnett and Lana Zak to discuss what's known about the explosion and what it means for SpaceX.
"I always see strange things in the sky but this was insane," one woman who saw the mysterious spiral said.
After months of anticipation, and just three days after getting FAA launch approval, SpaceX was forced to call off the maiden flight of its gargantuan Starship rocket Monday when a frozen valve caused problems pressurizing the booster's first stage. CBS News senior space analyst Bill Harwood joins us with details.
The gargantuan Starship rocket is critical for SpaceX's plans to send passengers and cargo to the moon, Mars and beyond.
The FAA has cleared SpaceX to launch the most powerful rocket ever put into orbit. The unpiloted test flight is scheduled for Monday.
With an FAA license in hand, SpaceX says the maiden flight of the world's most powerful rocket could come as early as Monday.
The phone company's network will support discoveries that could lay the groundwork for a human colony on the moon.
Boeing had hoped to launch its first crew to the International Space Station in 2020, but major softwar problems in 2019 delayed test flights.
A new image from the James Webb Telescope shows a Wolf-Rayet star on the verge of becoming a supernova. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins Elaine Quijano and Lana Zak to discuss the massive star, the plans for the Webb telescope and SpaceX's latest venture into phone service.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut successfully docked on the International Space Station on Friday.
After a brief delay, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked at the International Space Station. Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at The Planetary Society, joins CBS News' Elaine Quijano and Errol Barnett to discuss the crew's plans for their six-month stay.
Drugmaker Eli Lilly is slashing the price of insulin to no more than $35 a month. A key House committee has voted to give President Biden the power to ban TikTok. And the second time was a charm: SpaceX and NASA launched a four man crew to the space station after an aborted launch earlier this week.
The rescheduled launch of a four-man crew kicks off a 24-hour rendezvous with the space station.
Monday's scheduled SpaceX launch to send a four-man crew to the International Space Station was canceled at the last minute due to a problem with the ignition fuel. The next launch attempt is set for early Thursday.
A SpaceX rocket is set to launch a four-man crew to the International Space Station early Monday. Mark Strassmann has more.