Porn and movies, not tech secrets, found on Chinese spy suspect's NASA laptop The Chinese national taken into custody on an airplane waiting to take off for home had pornography and illegally downloaded movies on his NASA computer, not government secrets, reports say. He is now set to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating NASA computer rules. More
One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
Police confiscate 4-foot, 2-pound marijuana joint California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. More
Boeing is on the verge of launching astronauts aboard new capsule, the latest entry to space travel Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA after years of delays and stumbles. 05/4/2024 - 8:06 am | View Link
Historic Boeing Starliner space flight could land in Utah But a series of delays allowed SpaceX to leapfrog Boeing in the work to develop a new crew transport vehicle and in 2020, SpaceX's Dragon 2 Crew Capsule became the first U.S.-launched spaceflight to ... 04/26/2024 - 1:40 pm | View Link
SpaceX launch marks 300th successful booster landing SpaceX sent up the 30th launch from the Space Coast for the year on Tuesday evening, a mission that also featured the company’s 300th successful booster recovery. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 ... 04/23/2024 - 7:35 am | View Link
SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts share the good and bad of spending 6 months in space Related: SpaceX's Crew-7 capsule returns 4 astronauts to Earth with predawn splashdown (video) NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, who commanded Crew-7, agreed that the landing was soft, but then ... 03/26/2024 - 7:09 am | View Link
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Returns to Earth Following Successful Mission The crew, riding aboard the Dragon spacecraft, made a safe splashdown off the coast of ... made their aqueous landing at 5:47 a.m. EDT. Following their retrieval by the SpaceX recovery vessels ... 03/12/2024 - 12:38 am | View Link