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- Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to make another attempt to launch Amazon Project Kuiper mission Spaceflight Now · 10 Aug 2025 Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is scheduled for 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC), after three earlier attempts were scrubbed.
- Crew-10 Splashes Down Off San Diego SpacePolicyOnline.com · 10 Aug 2025 NASA’s Crew-10 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean this morning after five months on the International Space Station. Two private astronaut crews, Fram2 and Axiom-4, made West Coast splashdowns earlier
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California NASA · 9 Aug 2025 The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program completed the agency’s 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on...
- Crew 10 returns to Earth with Pacific Ocean splashdown Spaceflight Now · 9 Aug 2025 Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego to wrap up a five-month mission.
- Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Passes Away SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Aug 2025 Retired NASA astronaut Jim Lovell passed away yesterday at the age of 97. He will be long remembered as commander of Apollo 13, the historic 1970 mission to the Moon
- Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 & 13 astronaut, dies at 97 Spaceflight Now · 8 Aug 2025 Lovell served as the pilot of the Command Module for Apollo 8 and the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. NASA said he died Thursday, Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
- NASA Selects Contractors to Supply Centers with Helium NASA · 8 Aug 2025 NASA has chosen a group of contractors to supply multiple agency facilities with liquid and gaseous helium for at least the next two years. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid and Gaseous Helium contract is a fixed-pri...
- Legendary Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Dies at 97 NASASpaceflight · 8 Aug 2025 James “Jim” Lovell, the former NASA astronaut renowned for his heroic leadership during the ill-fated…
- NASA Astronaut Jim Lovell, First to Orbit the Moon and Survive Apollo 13 Crisis; Passes at 97 The Launch Pad · 8 Aug 2025 NASA Astronaut Jim Lovell, First to Orbit the Moon and Survive Apollo 13 Crisis; Passes at 97
- Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell NASA · 8 Aug 2025 The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97 years old. “NASA sends its condolence...
- NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions NASA · 8 Aug 2025 NASA invites media to view the agency’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft and two other missions — the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Spaceflight Now · 8 Aug 2025 The Starlink 17-4 mission will add another 24 satellites to the growing megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is targeting the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:43 p.m....
- Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star NASA · 8 Aug 2025 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24,...
- The Exploration Company Completes Test Campaign for Lunar Lander Engine European Spaceflight · 8 Aug 2025 The Exploration Company has completed a hot fire test campaign for the thrust chamber of its Huracan rocket engine. The testing put the fourth prototype of the thrust chamber through its paces, including introducing deli...
- Week in images: 04-08 August 2025 ESA · 8 Aug 2025 Week in images: 04-08 August 2025
- Chinese launch cadence picks up as Tianlong-3 prepares for launch NASASpaceflight · 8 Aug 2025 China’s Space Pioneer is preparing for the maiden launch of its Tianlong-3, a vehicle similar…
- Rocket Report: Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars Ars Technica · 8 Aug 2025 "Get on board! We are going to Mars!"
- Hubble Captures a Tarantula NASA · 8 Aug 2025 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in...
- Human minds, robotic hands ESA · 8 Aug 2025 Last July, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This was the final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a joint initiativ...
- Bruno Optimistic about ULA Launch Cadence, Worried About Starship Operations in Florida SpacePolicyOnline.com · 8 Aug 2025 ULA President Tory Bruno is optimistic the company will reach its goal of two launches a month by the end of 2025. That’s later than planned and total launches for
- ULA’s Tory Bruno lays out plans for ramping up launch cadence Spaceflight Now · 7 Aug 2025 United Launch Alliance will launch the USSF-106 mission as its first flight for the U.S. Space Force using a Vulcan rocket. The vehicle will carry two satellite missions onboard.
- Italy Signs Agreement with SpaceX for Starship Mars Mission European Spaceflight · 7 Aug 2025 The Italian space agency, ASI, has signed an agreement with SpaceX for an uncrewed mission to Mars aboard one of the company’s Starship rockets. Announced on 7 August, the agreement includes provisions for several payloa...
- Linking Local Lithologies to a Larger Landscape NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as...
- US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)...
- ULA CEO Tory Bruno Outlines plans for Vulcan and beyond NASASpaceflight · 7 Aug 2025 In a teleconference ahead of the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) first mission for the U.S.…
- NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing NASA · 7 Aug 2025 The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing – which is why NASA is working...
- NASA’s Artemis II Crew Trains in Orion NASA · 7 Aug 2025 The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman don their Orion Crew Survival System Suits for a multi-day...
- NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri tri...
- Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin ESA · 7 Aug 2025 Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Ce...
- Three NASA Langley Employees Win Prestigious Silver Snoopy Awards NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Three employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the Silver Snoopy award, a prestigious honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for exceptional achievements...
- As NASA Missions Study Interstellar Comet, Hubble Makes Size Estimate NASA · 7 Aug 2025 A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the crisp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is one of many missions across NASA’s fleet of space...
- Wade Sisler: A Wonder Aficionado in Service of the Cosmos NASA · 7 Aug 2025 Executive Producer — Goddard Space Flight Center Across 42 years at NASA, Wade Sisler — executive producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—watched the edge of human knowledge progress. During...
- ESA Astronaut Raphaël Liégeois ESA · 7 Aug 2025 ESA astronaut Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium, a member of the ESA Astronaut Class of 2022, was selected in November 2022 from over 22,500 candidates who applied to ESA’s 2021 call for new astronauts.
- Crew-10 poised for return to Earth after months at ISS NASASpaceflight · 7 Aug 2025 Crew Dragon C210 Endurance and the Crew-10 astronauts are preparing to return to Earth following…
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 6 Aug 2025 The mission, dubbed KF-02, is the fourth flight to date of Project Kuiper satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 UTC).
- NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown NASA · 6 Aug 2025 NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, splashdown is tar...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins NASA · 6 Aug 2025 Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. Today was a very special day for Curiosity as the rover celebrated the start of a 14t...
- Snapshot Wisconsin Celebrates 10 Years and 100 Million Photos Collected! NASA · 6 Aug 2025 The Snapshot Wisconsin project recently collected their 100 millionth trail camera photo! What’s more, this milestone coincides with the project’s 10-year anniversary. Congratulations to the team and everyone who’s parti...
- As the end of the ISS nears, NASA shakes up program for commercial replacements Ars Technica · 6 Aug 2025 "Certain players are going to have to do a harder pivot."
- NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier NASA · 6 Aug 2025 As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kickin...