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three astronauts give thumbs' up signs on the international space station

'Stuck' NASA astronauts on ISS grilled on Earthly politics as long 9-month mission nears end. 'From my standpoint, politics is not playing into this at all.'

By Mike Wall published

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth this month after an unexpectedly long stay aboard the International Space Station — one that has become politically charged here on Earth.

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A pale man wearing a blue suit and red had with orange face paint purses his lips toward another, taller pale man, pursing his lips in the direction of the first man, wearing all black. A blurry man behind them awaits the inevitable.

Musk and Trump repeat false 'stranded' Starliner astronauts narrative, but they are not stranded

By Josh Dinner last updated

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner mission were "abandoned" in space.

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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.

Boeing Starliner astronauts on the ISS set the story straight: 'We don't feel stranded'

By Josh Dinner published

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore say they aren't stranded aboard the space station. They'll be happy to come home but sad when their spaceflight journey comes to an end.

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a massive silver-and-white rocket lands on the grey, dusty surface of the moon

Risks with current Artemis 3 moon landing plan 'may be too high,' NASA safety group says

By Leonard David published

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space agency's Artemis undertaking to return astronauts to the moon.

Missions
SpaceX's Starship Flight 5 Super Heavy booster approaches its launch tower for the first-ever landing and capture at the pad after launching on a suborbital test flight from Starbase in South Texas on Oct. 13, 2024.

Starship, Europa Clipper and more: The top 10 spaceflight stories of 2024

By Julian Dossett published

From SpaceX plucking its huge Super Heavy rocket out of the sky to the launch of NASA's $5 billion Europa Clipper mission, this year held many amazing advances.

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An image of a white spacecraft over a blue portion of earth, seen through a curved window, is superimposed over a photo of two astronauts floating in a space station hatch on the right, both smiling.

Boeing Starliner astronauts will return to Earth in March 2025 after new NASA, SpaceX delay

By Josh Dinner published

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay in space an extra month, until March 2025, giving SpaceX more time to complete a new Crew Dragon capsule.

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China and the U.S. both have big plans for the Moon, but there are a number of reasons why no country could actually claim ownership of any land there.

The US is now at risk of losing to China in the race to send people back to the Moon’s surface

By Jacco van Loon published

In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the US and China are preparing to send humans back there this decade.

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Artist rendering of the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere.

Space Force's mysterious X-37B begins 'aerobraking' to lower orbit. Here's how it works (video)

By Brett Tingley published

In a rare show of openness about the X-37B, Boeing Space released a video detailing how the space plane's aerobraking maneuvers help change the spacecraft's orbit.

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A black and white SpaceX capsule is parked at a space station with an inset of astronauts at the controls.

SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including Boeing Starliner crew, fly Dragon spacecraft to new ISS parking spot (video)

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Four astronauts moved their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to a new space station docking port on Sunday (Nov. 3) to make way for an incoming cargo ship.

International Space Station
A white and black Boeing Starliner space capsule is seen docked at the International Space Station through a station window with the Earth below.

Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires

By Loizos Heracleous published

The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems.

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