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  • FILE – This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station, orbiting 262 miles above Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP, File)Tech

    NASA is delaying its next crew launch to buy more time to fix Boeing’s troubled Space Station capsule

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Two astronauts floating inside the ISSTech

    Astronauts say they’re confident Boeing’s space capsule will get them safely back to Earth, even though it’s had multiple mechanical failures and they should’ve returned weeks ago

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • astronauts sit in space capsule simulatorCompanies

    Boeing is about to face a big test after falling behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • people watching solar eclipseEnvironment

    Here’s everything you need to know about the total solar eclipse happening on Monday

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • SpaceX rocketTech

    Elon Musk loses a SpaceX mega rocket descending to Earth after hourlong test flight

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Astronauts inside SpaceX capsuleTech

    SpaceX Falcon rocket blasts 4 astronauts en route to the International Space Station

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Moon landingEnvironment

    The private company whose spacecraft on the moon tipped over is expected to cease operations after cutting mission short

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Main Engine Control Computer designer for Intuitive Machines Dan Harrison cheers amongst fellow employees during a watch party moments after they became the first commercial company to softly land on the moon on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Houston. ( Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP)Tech

    Private moon lander company makes first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Four private astronauts are making a trip to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)Tech

    SpaceX sends astronauts from Turkey, Sweden and Italy to the international space station on latest chartered flight

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • Moon landingEnvironment

    First moon landing attempt in 50 years foiled by ‘critical’ fuel leak hours before blast-off

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • The brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur, lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41d at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral,Finance

    Commercial U.S. lunar lander heading toward the moon—the first in more than 50 years

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • SpaceXTech

    Elon Musk watches SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship take-off, explode in self-destruct mode 8 minutes later

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press
  • A Student wearing solar eclipse glasses watching the hybrid partial solar eclipse in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, April 20, 2023. (Photo by: Dimas Rachmatsyah/INA Photo Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    How to see the ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse on Saturday that will put on a dazzling display across parts of the U.S.

    By Marcia Dunn and Bloomberg
  • Virgin GalacticLifestyle

    Space tourists who paid $450,000 apiece are blasting off with Virgin Galactic, joined by an ex-Olympian with an 18-year-old ticket and sweepstakes winners

    By Susan Montoya Bryan, Marcia Dunn, and others
  • The crew of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft, from left, Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi, commandeer Peggy Whitson, pilot John Shoffner and Saudi Arabian astronaut Ali al-Qarni arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., before their launch to the International Space Station, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/John Raoux)Tech

    SpaceX just sent 2 Saudi astronauts—including the country’s first woman in space—to the ISS

    By Marcia Dunn and The Associated Press