The new astronauts would be eligible for exploratory missions to the surface of the Moon and perhaps Mars as well as to staff the International Space Station or commercial low-Earth-orbit successors.
Two Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster airlifters carrying the Mars 2020 rover and various other elements touched down at Kennedy Space Center’s former Shuttle Landing Facility shortly after 3 p.m. EST Feb. 12.
NASA and Boeing will review all 1 million lines of code following errors found during the CST-100 Starliner's troubled uncrewed orbital flight demonstration mission in December.
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch on Jan. 20 completed the latest spacewalk in a long-running effort to upgrade the space station's solar power generation system.
Collins Aerospace will provide critical subsystems for Orion spacecraft crews assigned to resume human exploration of the lunar surface starting in 2024
Ellen Ochoa will be the 34th recipient of the National Space Trophy, presented each year to a U.S. citizen for major contributions to the U.S. space program.
“I would put us in the red-risk for being ready at the national level for sample analysis of the Osiris-Rex materials,” the mission's principal investigator says.