The Unusual Crew-9 Mission
Set to launch no earlier than September 24 atop a Falcon-9 is SpaceX's ninth Commercial Crew Program mission and will become the company's 15th crewed flight when it launches.
Re-entry: Hot Enough to Boil Steel
One thing is going to space; another is coming back. The art of entering the Earth's atmosphere is something scientists and engineers are still working on perfecting, as temperatures from the
Radiation on Our Interplanetary Journeys
Polaris Dawn is coming up and will take humans farther than we have been since 1972, when Apollo 17, the last crewed mission to the Moon, took place. Now the Polaris Dawn crew
How SpaceX's New Dragon Will Deorbit the ISS
With the International Space Station being at the end of its lifetime, SpaceX has been selected as the provider for the United States Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) that will deorbit the 25-year-old station. Such