President Donald Trump and Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Musk, will be tasked with retrieving two NASA astronauts who have been stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024.
In a letter addressed to the next NASA administrator—who, if Trump’s nomination is confirmed, will be Shift4 CEO and SpaceX ally Jared Isaacman—Nelson highlighted the space agency’s work during his tenure and urged continuity. He emphasized NASA’s responsibility to return Americans to the moon and land them on Mars for the first time.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to remove degraded hardware and swab for microorganisms.
President Donald Trump asked SpaceX Founder Elon Musk to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth, after they've spent months on the International Space Station.
Elon Musk wrote in an X post that Donald Trump had asked SpaceX to bring Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore home.
Bill Nelson has stepped ... is close to the state's famous Space Coast, which is home to both KSC and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In January 1986, Nelson flew on the STS-61-C mission ...
"America is leading humanity back to the Moon, onward to Mars, and into a golden age of space exploration," Nelson wrote,
AI-powered chatbot, DeepSeek’s app quickly topped Apple’s App Store charts, a notable achievement given U.S. restrictions on Chinese access to advanced AI chips. Shares in major tech firms such as Nvidia fell sharply,
NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025.
Starliner co-pilot Sunita Williams is now the world's most experienced female spacewalker, moving up to No. 4 overall.
An upcoming private space mission will carry the first national astronauts from India, Hungary, and Poland to visit the International Space Station.