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On Saturday, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got a question about Starliner,” Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. "There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker … I don’t know what’s making …

NASA has announced that astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth next February aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The announcement at a press conference today caps off months of speculation about the best plan to safely bring the astronauts home after malfunctions with their ride, Boeing’s Starliner capsule, …

After much waiting, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has finally launched humans into space. At 10:52 am ET on Wednesday, June 5, the vehicle lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with two NASA astronauts on board, the culmination of a troubled decade of development. Now, Boeing will hope, its own promised era of …

NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of a battery pack released from the International Space Station. This extraordinary incident opens a new frontier in space law. NASA, the homeowner, and attorneys are navigating little-used legal codes and intergovernmental agreements to …

In the imagined universe of the new space thriller I.S.S., the International Space Station doesn’t seem too different from the actual football-field-sized habitable satellite orbiting above our heads. At least, not initially. In the glow of post–Cold War collaboration, astronauts and cosmonauts conduct scientific experiments side-by-side and playfully correct each …

Since 2000, the International Space Station has sped through space at 17,500 mph, 260 miles above our heads, affording its rotation of seven astronauts to gaze on the vast majority of Earth every 90 minutes. But back in 2002, Don Pettit’s eyes were focused firmly on a circle of decidedly …