space flight

First crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner capsule with Sunita Williams targeted for May 17

by
First crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner capsule with Sunita Williams targeted for May 17

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams gets ready to board the Boeing’s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket for a mission to the International Space Station at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on May 6, 2024. The launch was called off. | Photo Credit: AP The target date for the next attempt to launch Boeing … Read more

Blue Origin: Here’s what you need to know about Jeff Bezos’ space dream on launch day

by
Blue Origin: Here’s what you need to know about Jeff Bezos’ space dream on launch day

The space bug caught Bezos’ fancy when he watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon as a five-year-old in July 1969.(Twitter/@blueorigin) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will be on board the Blue Origin when it is launched into space from west Texas today. The flight will have no engineers or test pilots on … Read more