SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles. The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop…
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Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week by catching…
Read More »This week’s science news was largely dominated by the return of two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, whose…
Read More »Image Credit: Getty Images Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore had been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since…
Read More »Two Boeing Starliner astronauts just touched down on Earth after an unpredicted nine-month stay at the International Space Station. Most…
Read More »Image Credit: Getty Images NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore boarded the International Space Station (ISS) on…
Read More »A composite image showing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore (at left) and Suni Williams (second from right), together with cosmonaut Aleksandr…
Read More »In this handout image provided by NASA, support teams work on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with…
Read More »In February, President Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that Williams and Wilmore had been “virtually abandoned” in…
Read More »The first astronauts to fly on board two different commercial spacecraft during a single mission have returned to Earth, splashing…
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