Space X

CAP CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered to return to their spacesuits due to a potential collision with debris in orbit. It turns out that there was no object or threat, the US Space Command acknowledged on Monday. …

NASA and SpaceX plan to return to the moon as early as 2024. The agency will give up some control but also save money, said Scott Hubbard, a SpaceX adviser. “There is no backup plan in place if SpaceX fails,” said another former NASA engineer. See more stories on the …

Four astronauts aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month mission. Frenchman Thomas Pesquet is the first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to fly in the billionaire tech entrepreneur’s space capsule, alongside Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, and …

Elon musk don’t think NASA’s 2024 moon landing target is out of reach. The space agency is working to bring people back to the moon through its Artemis program, which aims to establish a long-term sustainable human presence on and around Earth’s closest neighbor by the end of the 2020s. …