Positioned slightly above GEO, it will target one of two U.S. Space Force Tetra-5 satellites due to be launched next year, and attempt to dock with the spacecraft. The Refueler will then transfer ...

twirling and twisting but never actually touching each other - takes place every 90 minutes and nearly 500km above the Earth's surface, and it is part of the ongoing Space Docking Experiment ...

The Blue Origin New Shepard mission, NS-31, was scheduled for liftoff at 9:30 a.m. E.T. on Monday, April 14, 2025. The all-female flight carried Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren ...

The quartet, who rocketed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday night, returned off the Southern California coast. It was the first human spaceflight to circle the globe above the poles ...

They pass the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space 62 miles above Earth, before unbuckling to float weightless and gaze at our planet. The crew returns gently under ...

"What's above us connects us," Jemison said. "Every group of people around the world have looked up at the stars for thousands of generations." King's journey to space on a Blue Origin rocket will ...

The journalist and helicopter pilot rode Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, which takes space tourists to 62 miles above Earth's surface — to the Kármán line, which is the internationally ...

Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. Ed White floats in orbit miles above Hawaii during the first ever successful "walk in space" EVA (extra vehicular activity). This image is the first ever ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 12-17 mission Saturday night (April 12) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Falcon 9 lifted off from KSC's historic Launch Complex-39A at 8: ...

There were no pilots. It was a fully autonomous 11-minute journey above the internationally recognized boundary of space. The crew experienced weightlessness and witnessed views of the earth ...