NASA's Crew-11 mission launches to the space station
Crew-11 launched toward the space station on August 1, 2025. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.Update: The Crew-11 mission launched today just before 12 p.m. EDT in Florida.| EarthSky
Crew-11 launched toward the space station on August 1, 2025. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.Update: The Crew-11 mission launched today just before 12 p.m. EDT in Florida.| EarthSky
ANOMALY! Just before Ship 36 was set to Static Fire, it blew up at SpaceX Masseys!| EarthSky
ESA has unveiled the 1st images from Proba-3, an ambitious mission using 2 satellites to reveal the sun's outer atmosphere through artificial solar eclipses. The post First images from Proba-3, the 2-part sun observer first appeared on EarthSky.| Sun | EarthSky
The Japanese lunar exploration company ispace attempted to land on the moon today, June 5, 2025. Watch a replay of the livestream in the player above. The livestream ended with the company still trying to communicate with the lander. It’s not looking good.| EarthSky
SpaceX’s Starship Flight 9 launched from Starbase in south Texas on May 27, 2025. The 1st-ever reused Super Heavy booster exploded during its landing burn over the Gulf of Mexico. Starship itself touched orbit, then lost control and tumbled back to Earth. Image is a video still via SpaceX live feed/ Videos from Space.At 18:37 CDT (23:37 UTC) last night (May 27, 2025), SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off for the 9th time. This was the first attempt to launch Starship on a reused booster st...| EarthSky
Watch Blue Origin’s 11th space tourism launch. It has an all-female crew. The launch window will open at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Monday, April 14.| EarthSky
The lunar lander Athena captured this selfie as it orbited the moon on March 3, 2025. Earth is the small world in the distance. Athena landed on the moon on March 6, 2025. Unfortunately, like the Intuitive Machines’ mission before it, it appears to be on its side. Image via Intuitive Machines (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).Athena landed on the moon, but on its side| EarthSky
https://earthsky.org/upl/2025/03/Screen-Recording-2025-03-06-160332.mp4| EarthSky
NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center is the largest single-story building in the world. Here’s a peek inside NASA’s VAB showing the solid rocket boosters that will lift the Artemis 2 mission into space. The Artemis missions seek to return astronauts to the moon. Image via Greg Diesel Walck.An exclusive peek inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building| EarthSky
Watch sunset on the moon as the Blue Ghost mission comes to a close. Here, we see a final sequence as the sun sets below the moon’s surface. The white dot in the distance is Venus, and the bright object that looks like a second sun is Earth with sunlight shining off it. Video via Firefly Aerospace.| EarthSky
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