John Raoux/AP Boeing’s Starliner capsule lifts off Wednesday atop an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station. CNN – After a successful launch that was a decade in the making, Boeing’s Starliner mission is navigating new challenges en route … Read more
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation after an incident during its first crewed flight in two years in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate. William Shatner for Jeff Bezos to the company The new Shepard rocket was launched on … Read more
The story of NASA’s commercial crew program, NASA’s bold attempt a decade ago to outsource human spaceflight to a pair of companies, is a story of contrasts—of an unlikely rise to dominance for one and an equally unlikely fall from grace for another. . SpaceX has emerged as the world’s leading space company, leveraging its … Read more