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Eric Berger Ars Technica

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner...

NASA Still Hasn’t Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home

During a news conference on Wednesday, NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the...

NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home

It has now been eight weeks since Boeing's Starliner spacecraft launched into orbit on an Atlas V...

A Chinese Space Startup Launched Its New Rocket by Accident

One of the most promising Chinese space startups, Space Pioneer, experienced a serious anomaly last weekend while...

NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Are Struggling to Make Them

Almost exactly two years ago, as it prepared for the next generation of human spaceflight, NASA chose...

Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults

In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Starliner...

Elon Musk’s Latest Mars Pitch Has Potential

Elon Musk has been talking publicly about his sweeping vision for Mars settlement for nearly eight years...

A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon

Two of Blue Origin's earliest employees, former president Rob Meyerson and chief architect Gary Lai, have started...