Similar to its pad turnaround operations, SpaceX made great progress with its booster turnaround times in 2024. While in 2023, the average turnaround time of a booster was between 40 to 45 days, in ...

The state in space makes it difficult or dangerous for certain foods to be brought and consumed there, so they are banned.

If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission, such as aboard the International Space Station, the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule within a matter of hours. If it happened on the Moon, ...

Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native and veteran astronaut, will command Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission, set to launch no earlier than ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa-native Peggy Whitson is set to command another commercial spaceflight. Axiom Mission 4 will take Whitson and a crew of international partners to space to dock with the ...

Iowa-born astronaut Peggy Whitson is scheduled to command another two-week mission to the International Space Station in the ...

Find out how astronauts on the International Space Station celebrate the New Year in space, with 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours!

New space missions will aim to measure Earth's biomass from space, return stranded astronauts to Earth, and prepare for landing humans on the Moon. DW explains what's in store for 2025.

Sunita Williams, Indian-origin NASA astronaut along with her colleagues on the International Space Station (ISS), will have ...

Sunita Williams, who has been abroad the International Space Station for over eight months now, will celebrate New Year in an ...

The number of times the ISS witnesses a sunrise depends on the times it orbits the Earth. On average, it sees over 15.5 ...