Passengers watch Boeing Starliner launch from airplane windows
Xavier Cummings works with rockets every day in his job as a NASA contractor, but he's never seen a launch like this.
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Boeing's Starliner won't reach space station on uncrewed test
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft failed to put itself on the correct course during an uncrewed test flight on Friday and will not reach the International Space Station during this mission.
Trump launches Space Command
President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the US military's Space Command.
NASA activates Deep Space Atomic Clock
The most precise clock ever flown in space may not inspire thrills, but it could be the key to safely sending people to Mars.
Expedition 60 crew launches to space station on Apollo 11 anniversary
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, two astronauts and a cosmonaut launched to the International Space Station.
50 years after US moon landing, China is catching up in the space race
Fifty years ago, when the Apollo 11 astronauts became the first human beings to land on the moon, the Chinese space program had yet to launch a single satellite.
India delays mission to land rover on the moon
India's mission to land a rover on the surface of the moon was called off due to a "technical snag" less than an hour before take off Monday.
China's moon mission just start of its space ambitions
As you read this, a spindly-looking silver robot with a satellite dish for a head is exploring places never seen up close before by humans.
Trump to launch Space Command this week
President Donald Trump will order in the coming days the establishment of a new military space command, a move that comes as Vice President Mike Pence plans two high-profile visits related to the US space program, three US officials tell CNN.
In space first, China launches lunar rover to far side of the moon
China is poised to become the first country to explore the far side of the moon with the launch of a lunar rover Saturday, another step to its goal of becoming a space superpower.
Cremated remains being launched on SpaceX rocket
Before 36-year-old James Eberling died in November 2016, he told his parents he had one final wish:
Astronaut recounts harrowing failed space launch
Two minutes into his first trip to space last Thursday, US astronaut Nick Hague found himself thinking how smoothly the flight was going. "It was everything I expected it to be," he told NASA director Jim Bridenstine at Johnson Space Center on Tuesday.
