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Two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, are finally coming back to Earth on Tuesday. Their spaceship is scheduled ...
Reiter served two missions in space, first on Mir, a Soviet-era space station which de-orbited in 2001, and later as a flight engineer on the ISS. Williams replaced Reiter on her first spaceflight.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that three of the 19 missions it is planning or operating in collaboration with NASA are at risk as a result of President Trump's proposed budget cuts ...
Tuesday morning's weather was nice enough on the Space Coast for one of two planned launches, but high winds in a potential abort site forced the human spaceflight plans of Axiom Space and SpaceX ...
NASA indefinitely delayed a four-person crew's mission to the International Space Station on Thursday over an escalating probe into air leaks aboard the orbiting laboratory's Russian segment.
Peggy Whitson, a retired NASA astronaut, is on her way back to the International Space Station for the fifth time as part of SpaceX Axiom Mission 4.
Axiom Space's four-person crew — which includes astronauts from India, Hungary and Poland — docked with the ISS on June 26, kicking off a 14-day research mission.
UPDATED: June 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM EDT SpaceX called off a planned Wednesday morning launch attempt of the crewed Axiom Space Ax-4 mission to deal with a liquid oxygen leak on the rocket booster.
The Ax-4 mission is the fourth private spaceflight for the Houston-based commercial company, which is flying four astronauts on a two-week trip to the International Space Station.
The mission will see SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and its crewed Dragon send up the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, according to SpaceX.
A Falcon 9 rocket stands at Launch Complex 39-A as the Axiom-4 crewed mission prepares for its launch to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., June 24, 2025.
SpaceX was supposed to launch four private astronauts this week on a 14-day space station mission, but bad weather and SpaceX rocket trouble delayed the flight. Then the station leak issue cropped up.