Virgin Galactic’s sixth commercial spaceflight will lift off next month, if all goes according to plan. The mission, known as Galactic-06, is targeted for Jan. 26, Virgin Galactic announced in a statement issued on Tuesday (Dec. 19). The flight will include four private astronauts — one from Texas, one from […]
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The new era of human spaceflight is upon us with a crewed flight to the moon, on the Orion space capsule, scheduled for next year as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission. This endeavor will only see astronauts reach lunar orbit, but is expected to pave the way for Artemis […]
Space travel throws up a slew of problems regarding sex, including what would happen to a baby if it was conceived in space. But even if they remain sexually abstinent during a stint away from Earth, male astronauts may encounter trouble in the bedroom after they return home. In experiments […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida tonight (Oct. 21) on the company’s second mission of the day. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight at 10:17 p.m. EDT (0217 GMT on Oct. […]
Virgin Galactic continues to make spaceflight history. The company successfully sent a Pakistani to space for the first time on its “Galactic 04” mission, which lifted off from New Mexico’s Spaceport America this morning (Oct. 6). That passenger was adventurer Namira Salim, founder and chairperson of the nonprofit Space Trust. […]
Virgin Galactic is preparing for its fourth commercial spaceflight mission. Galactic 04 will carry a three-person crew accompanied by the company’s head astronaut instructor, as well as the two pilots at the helm of Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity. Their flight to the edge space is scheduled to take place […]
As commercial spaceflight operations ramp up and potentially thousands of passengers take to space in the coming decades, there will be ample opportunity for these passengers to participate in research programs and scientific studies. However, there are currently limited ethical guidelines around such research, and a team of experts are […]
KIHEI, Hawaii — Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has introduced legislation that would extend a restriction on the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to regulate commercial human spaceflight safety by another eight years. McCarthy announced Sept. 21 he has introduced the Space Transformation And Reliability (STAR) Act. The one-page bill […]