Nobody will be giving out any medals when Blue Origin’s eleventh crewed space flight leaves the ground. The brief suborbital sojourn has a planned April 14 liftoff time of 8:30 a.m. CDT and will land just 11 minutes later. There will not likely be the kind of global audience and saturation coverage that has attended other crewed space launches. That’s not the way it was on May 5, 1961, when NASA astronaut Alan Shepard flew a similar flight profile—a popgun trajectory above the atmosphere and a landing just a few...

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. New satellite images released by NASA reveal just how much the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee has changed in just two decades as a result of urban expansion. In a stunning visual comparison, satellite images taken 23 years apart—by the Landsat 7 satellite in 2001 and the Landsat 8 satellite in 2024—highlight the transformation of Chattanooga from a mid-sized manufacturing town into a sprawling metropolitan area. Located along the Tennessee River, the once...

WASHINGTON, DC—Over the course of a nearly three-hour committee hearing Wednesday, the nominee to lead NASA for the Trump administration faced difficult questions from US Senators who sought commitments to specific projects. However, maneuvering like a pilot with more than 7,000 hours in jets and ex-military aircraft, entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman dodged most of their questions and would not be pinned down.

A six-wheeled robot wandering the rugged terrain of Mars recently came across two small tornadoes whipping around the planet's surface. In a short video released Thursday by NASA, the two dust devils can be seen swirling and spinning on the rim of a feature known as the Jezero Crater. The landmark is famous as being the landing site of Perseverance, a Martian rover NASA sent to explore the planet about four years ago. Perseverance, about the size of a car, captured the whirling twisters in January about a month after...

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is planning to unveil legislation aimed at bringing NASA headquarters to Florida. The bill has gained a shocking amount of bipartisan support: The Consolidating Aerospace Programs Efficiently at Canaveral Act is the “House version of a Senate bill” previously introduced by Florida Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ashley Moody (R-FL). It would relocate the NASA headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Florida’s Space Coast, which is currently the home of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as well as the Kennedy Space Center. Both stations are primary...

(NEXSTAR) – NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are expected to speak to the media in their first news conference since returning to Earth on March 18. The event is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET on Monday. Wilmore and Williams blasted into orbit in June 2024, as part of a test flight of Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule. They were scheduled to return about eight days later, but problems plagued the mission and NASA ultimately decided to bring the Starliner home, leaving Wilmore and Williams on the International Space...

While other astronauts had longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length of their mission expand by so much. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will participate in their first press conference Monday to reflect on their saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. Wilmore and Williams returned to Earth last Tuesday, their SpaceX capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico in the early evening,...

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. A new image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) has captured a beautiful dusting of snow over national parks in Wyoming and Montana. The image, captured by an astronaut from NASA's Expedition 72 crew, shows the Rocky Mountains across both states blanketed in snow, with the frozen surfaces of Yellowstone Lake and Jackson Lake, located in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park, respectively, blending into the white and gray...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are speaking out for the first time since they returned to Earth after being stranded on the International Space Station for more than nine months. On Monday, March 31, Wilmore, 62, and Williams, 59, sat down with Fox News' — and the pair got candid about their time on the ISS. "My first thought was, 'We just gotta pivot,' you know?" Williams said when asked her reaction to the astronauts' extended stay. "If this was the destiny, if our spacecraft was going to go home,...