Josh Dinner
Josh Dinner is Space.com's Content Manager. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's commercial spaceflight partnerships, from early Dragon and Cygnus cargo missions to the ongoing development and launches of crewed missions from the Space Coast, as well as NASA science missions and more. He also enjoys building 1:144 scale models of rockets and human-flown spacecraft. Find some of Josh's launch photography on Instagram and his website, and follow him on Twitter, where he mostly posts in haiku.
Latest articles by Josh Dinner
![a lunar lander on the moon](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mwtxtJ7oyYhGaJ9HdF26mL-320-80.jpg)
Japanese company ispace plans to land helium-3 mining missions on the moon
By Josh Dinner published
Japanese company ispace signs agreement with Magna Petra for lunar collaboration and resource mining on future missions to the moon.
![a bright white spacecraft is docked on the right, taking up nearly half that side of the image, the milky way stands to the left.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/M9WHN44wvdzizf4MhqWAHe-320-80.jpg)
Watch the sun rise on SpaceX's Crew Dragon as the Milky Way fades into darkness in mesmerizing ISS video
By Josh Dinner published
A new video from the International Space Station shows SpaceX's Crew Dragon alongside the Milky Way, as the bright sun rises on the spacecraft's face.
![An Arianespace Vega-C rocket launches the Sentinel-1C Earth-observation satellite from Kourou, French Guiana, on Dec. 5, 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Tzc2r7UqNpykWGrtoa2LyZ-320-80.jpg)
Europe's Vega-C rocket launches Earth-observation satellite on 1st liftoff since 2022 failure (video)
By Josh Dinner last updated
Europe's Vega-C rocket successfully launched the Sentinel-1C Earth-observation satellite today (Dec. 5), bouncing back from a 2022 failure.
![a row of people in the distance take photos of a rocket far away but large in frame.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/izYUbYoPvtCCQaAyMfRqUV-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Sirius XM radio satellite (video)
By Josh Dinner last updated
SpaceX launched SiriusXM's newest satellite, the SXM-9, adding the spacecraft to the company's digital radio broadcasting fleet.
![Earth hangs near lower center, with a smaller grey circle hovering above to the left. A box in the upper right shows info about an asteroid.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XV9mrsPkkvUxWcHffRkgHh-320-80.jpg)
Asteroid the size of 3 million elephants zooms past Earth
By Josh Dinner published
A big asteroid zoomed past Earth and the moon early Dec. 4, setting it up for another close pass in 2028.
![Photo of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launching the NS-20 space tourist mission in March 2022.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sHAiPWbPfYt4ZyqFTH9cy8-320-80.jpg)
Watch Blue Origin launch 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli, 5 others on tourism flight today
By Josh Dinner last updated
Blue Origin's next space tourism mission is launching Nov. 22, with 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli. Watch live on Space.com.
![Side by side images show a tall white rocket landed on the moon on the left, with a rover on its left on the grey surface. Earth is setting on the horizon against the black of space. On the right, a shorter lander, cylindrical, with a lifting platform lowered to the surface with a rover aboard.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XiZw7XxXqJfAdtZuinETRb-320-80.jpg)
NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon
By Josh Dinner published
NASA is planning to assign SpaceX and Blue Origin 'demonstration missions' for their Artemis Program lunar landers, with eyes to put a habitat on the moon by 2033.
![A white squiggly cloud scrapes vertically in the center, with the dark blue of the sea dropped behind. Land cuts across the bottom, its green hue blued by the atmosphere above.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4JT4BzeHCdJMH7rqmhR6Pd-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX's 6th Starship megarocket launch looked amazing from space in astronaut and camera views (photo, video)
By Josh Dinner published
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Sen cameras captured stunning views of SpaceX's Starship megarocket launch from the International Space Station.
![A chrome finned rocket lifts off next to a dark grey launch tower with black extended arms. Smoke billows up, obscuring all but the rocket's second stage, glowing orange and rising into the clue blue sky. In the foreground, grass reeds and an old test launch vehicle in the distance.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KT8Pf8y7cUAUKbswUznWdf-320-80.jpg)
How to watch SpaceX launch Flight 6 of its Starship megarocket today
By Josh Dinner published
SpaceX is launching Starship on its 6th test flight, with another Super Heavy booster catch back at the rocket's Starbase, Texas launch tower. Watch the action live on Space.com.
![Side by side images show a rocket booster hovering in mid air to the right of a tall launch tower on the shores of a sea.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/39ohLzvUGpXgtQgRdTwQWH-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX's epic Starship Super Heavy rocket catch looked just like the company imagined (side-by-side video)
By Josh Dinner published
Rendering no longer needed.
![A giant chrome rocket stands next to a tall launch tower, with sections frosted white from internal fueling. A blue sky hangs above with an ocean painted across the horizon, the marsh beach surrounding the launchpad.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eFegyA265mEzZ3w27HqHb5-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX fuels up Starship megarocket in key test ahead of 6th test flight (photos)
By Josh Dinner published
SpaceX has fueled up Starship and completed preflight checkouts ahead of the sixth test launch of the giant rocket, which is scheduled for Nov. 19.
![the silhouette of a rocket stands next to a launch tower with staircase, against a bright cloudy sky.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Umxwe7NnLfyRxymjaAwv9d-320-80.jpg)
Australian company Gilmour Space gets country's 1st orbital launch license
By Josh Dinner published
Gilmour Space has received Australia's first orbital launch license for the test flight of its Eris rocket
![A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft fires its thrusters under green and red lights with a nighttime Earth in the background while docking.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gvLmViD8Bq9JX5Q4rytheb-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX Dragon fires thrusters to boost ISS orbit for the 1st time
By Josh Dinner published
SpaceX's Dragon performed an orbital boost maneuver for the ISS; a first for the spacecraft, and a small step toward the space station's ultimate doom.
![Large statues of giant heads stand on a grassy hillside beneath a night sky illuminated with brilliant yellows and oranges from the Milky Way, masked by the cosmic shadow of space among the stars.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pJ9C84hseK9aDURRhKub2W-320-80.png)
Milky Way swirls over famous Easter Island statues in stunning photo
By Josh Dinner published
The Moai statues of Easter Island have some of the best views of the night sky on Earth.
![NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner capsule in June 2024, discuss their mission during a press conference from the ISS on Sept. 13.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eNaW8UkcKBGnouyqvBzHG9-320-80.jpg)
How do you vote from space? NASA astronauts cast 2024 election ballots from ISS
By Josh Dinner published
If they can manage to vote from space, you can sure manage to get to your polling place to cast a ballot of your own.
![fireball captured with a white, bright head at the right](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/quGJfH7Chb3vJwhX4NHcZR-320-80.jpg)
Spooky fireball blazes across Lake Erie a week before Halloween (video)
By Josh Dinner published
A fireball lit up the skies over Lake Erie on Monday (Oct. 21) evening, eliciting hundreds of witness reports to the American Meteor Society.
![a white rocket launches into a blue sky](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/t9txAei6GUvFrCxBaezp9m-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches NASA's Europa Clipper probe to explore icy Jupiter ocean moon (video)
By Josh Dinner published
Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated astrobiology mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa.
![The bulbous blue orb of Earth as seen from above. On its face, on the left, a giant white swirl of this cloud, a hurricane. On the bottom right, within the sliver of black space beneath the Earth, a white spacecraft is partially seen.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bSGyjNwPhuJSs94RDC6dxN-320-80.jpg)
Monstrous Hurricane Milton captured in 4K video by new Sen cameras on ISS
By Josh Dinner published
New cameras aboard the International Space Station captured stunning 4k views of Hurricane Milton as it churned across the Gulf of Mexico.
![A massive rocket stands next to a launch tower before a brilliant sky of tall purple clouds.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/t9MsuURzoudTaaeLPwxe8K-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX says its next Starship launch could fly as early as Oct. 13, pending FAA approval
By Josh Dinner published
SpaceX is targeting as soon as Oct. 13 for the next launch of its Starship Super Heavy megarocket, but it all hinges on approval from the FAA, which says to expect the flight in "late November."
![A vast ocean below a partly cloud sky. In the center, a long, flat boat with tall bow command center floats below a tiny point of bright light, hanging just above the deck from a long thin line attached to an enormous pale balloon towering above.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/A8xo6aMdPudPawzmX96XuS-320-80.jpg)
Space Perspective completes 1st uncrewed balloon flight to the edge of Earth's atmosphere (video)
By Josh Dinner published
Space Perspective completed the first uncrewed test flight of its Spaceship Neptune Excelsior balloon ride to the edge of Earth's atmosphere, and expects crewed flights to begin next year.
![A man in a black shirt shakes the hand of a woman in a blue shirt, inside a crowded room of wires and electronic gear. behind them, six people, four in red, one in grey, one in gree, one in black, and the last in blue.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NbH2hWk8D2sdvavNfgzbkD-320-80.jpg)
Boeing Starliner astronaut Suni Williams takes ISS command as 8-day mission turns into 8 months (video)
By Josh Dinner published
When assigned her original eight-day mission, she certainly didn't expect to taking over as commander of the International Space Station.
![NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who comprise SpaceX Crew-9.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HZ82oE7wzj5Tr5rkK9QAya-320-80.jpg)
Meet the SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts launching to the International Space Station Sept. 26
By Josh Dinner published
A two-person crew, instead of the usual four that fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, are about to launch to the International Space Station.
![The four private Polaris Dawn astronauts wave during a video downlink from their SpaceX Dragon capsule on Sept. 13, 2024.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QABoxjpVazpncKhEWMSnnX-320-80.jpg)
SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts will return to Earth early Sunday. Here's how to watch live online
By Josh Dinner published
After five days in space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, the crew of Polaris Dawn will return to Earth early TKday, and you can watch the landing live.
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