The crew arrived on Saturday on the Dragon Endeavour, a spacecraft built by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space exploration company.
Tag: Private Spaceflight
Yusaku Maezawa Seeks Companions for Moon Trip
Yusaku Maezawa, who previously sought a new girlfriend for the trip, issued a call for eight people to join him on a SpaceX journey around the moon.
Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race
Spurred by Brexit, London is backing companies that will build satellites and haul them into orbit.
The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab may be able to send a small spacecraft to probe the clouds of Venus long before NASA or other space agencies are able to do so.
Missions to Venus: Highlights From History, and When We May Go Back
Much visited in an earlier era of space exploration, the planet has been overlooked in recent decades.
OneWeb Launches 34 Satellites as Astronomers Fear Radio Chatter
Like SpaceX, the company aims to build a constellation of internet satellites, but its orbiters could interfere with telescopes on Earth.
After SpaceX Starlink Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars
Images of the Starlink constellation in orbit have rattled astronomers around the world.
How Israel’s Moon Lander Got to the Launchpad
With $100 million and a lot of volunteer labor, SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft could be the first privately built vessel to reach the lunar surface.
Rocket Lab’s Modest Launch Is Giant Leap for Small Rocket Business
The company’s Electron rocket carried a batch of small commercial satellites from a launchpad in New Zealand, a harbinger of a major transformation to the space business.