Satellite News

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity really kicked up some dust during its historic first flight on the Red Planet, which took place on Monday (April 19).

On April 21, 1997, the cremated remains of 24 people were launched into space in the first-ever space funeral. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

NASA is looking to commercial partners to help develop the next generation of spacesuits and spacewalk technology.

Fifty-one years to the day after they survived an explosion on the way to the moon, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise came face-to-face with their post-splashdown selves at Space Center Houston. The Apollo 13 crewmates toasted a sculpture capturing their recovery.

NASA is already working to map out the bright exploration future opened up by its little Mars helicopter.

The astronauts will launch on the Crew-2 mission to the orbiting lab in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft this Thursday (April 22).

NASA is expected to hold a press conference Wednesday (April 21) at 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT) to discuss SpaceX’s plans to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station.

The second test flight for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule, known as the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, won’t lift off until late this summer.