Crew Dragon launched on first human orbital spaceflight from US in nine years
Posted: Sun, May 31 8:42 AM ET (1242 GMT)
A Crew Dragon spacecraft with two NASA astronauts on board reached orbit Saturday after a successful launch. The SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off at 3:...

China launches technology demonstration satellites
Posted: Sun, May 31 8:33 AM ET (1233 GMT)
A Long March 11 rocket lifted off Friday placing a pair of technology demonstration satellites into orbit. The Long March 11 lifted off from the...

Weather scrubs Demo-2 launch attempt
Posted: Thu, May 28 6:26 PM ET (2226 GMT)
Weather forced NASA and SpaceX to scrub Wednesday's commercial crew launch, delaying it until at least Saturday. Launch controllers halted the countdown for the...

First LauncherOne mission fails to reach orbit
Posted: Thu, May 28 6:24 PM ET (2224 GMT)
Virgin Orbit's first LauncherOne rocket failed to make it to orbit Monday. The rocket, carried aloft by the company's Boeing 747 aircraft, was...

Soyuz launches missile early warning satellite
Posted: Sun, May 24 10:55 AM ET (1455 GMT)
Russia launched a military satellite on a Soyuz rocket early Friday. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia...

H-2B launches HTV cargo spacecraft
Posted: Sun, May 24 10:53 AM ET (1453 GMT)
Japan launched a cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Wednesday. An H-2B rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 1:31...

NASA human spaceflight head abruptly resigns
Posted: Sun, May 24 10:52 AM ET (1452 GMT)
The head of NASA's human spaceflight programs, Doug Loverro, has abruptly resigned over what he calls a "mistake." NASA announced Tuesday that Loverro resigned...

Atlas 5 launches X-37B on sixth mission
Posted: Sun, May 24 10:51 AM ET (1451 GMT)
An Atlas 5 successfully launched a military spaceplane May 17. The Atlas 5 401 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 9:14 am EDT (1314...

NASA unveils Artemis Accords for cooperation in lunar exploration
Posted: Sun, May 24 10:50 AM ET (1450 GMT)
NASA will ask countries seeking to cooperate on the Artemis program to follow a series of principles for safe behavior in space. NASA unveiled the "...

NASA slips first SLS launch to late 2021
Posted: Sun, May 17 11:10 AM ET (1510 GMT)
NASA now expects the first launch of the Space Launch System to take place in late 2021. In a presentation at a NASA Advisory Council...