rocketship soared more than 6 miles( 10 kilometers). SpaceX is awaiting approval from the Federal

, strapped inside the capsule of a SpaceX rocketship, as part of an astro-tourist team poised to make

The deviation put the ship outside the air traffic control clearance area. The FAA is overseeing the probe; it's responsible for protecting the public during commercial launches and reentries.... It will be the company's first launch where researchers accompany their own experiments.... The AP is solely responsible for all content....

It's reached space three times since 2018.... Bezos is taking his brother and two others along for the ride on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the first human moon landing. ———The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.... The AP is solely responsible for all content....

LOS ANGELES--Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder Richard Branson aboard. The company said it was advised by the FAA that corrective actions proposed by Virgin Galactic have been accepted.A larger area will be designated as protected airspace to ensure there is room for “ a variety of possible flight trajectories d

MOSCOW( Reuters)-A Russian actor and a film director making the first move film in space returned to Earth on Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station( ISS).... The Soyuz MS-18 space capsule carrying Russian ISS crew member Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed in a remote area outside the western Kazakhstan at 07: 35 a.m.( 0435 GMT), the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The crew had dedocked from the ISS three hours earlier. Russian state TV footag

“ But we don’t have any announcements about Virgin Galactic’s future flight plans at this time.” Unlike Blue Origin's and SpaceX's capsules launched from the ground by reusable rockets, Virgin Galactic uses a winged spacecraft that launches from the belly of an airplane.... Bezos is taking his brother and two others along for the ride on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the first human moon landing. ———The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Me

A decade later, Shepard walked on the moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission, famously hitting two golf galls on the lunar surface. Churchley is one of two honorary, non-paying guest passengers chosen by Blue Origin for Saturday's flight.... The other is Michael Strahan, 50, a retired National Football League star and co-anchor of ABC television's" Good Morning America" show.... They are joined by four lesser-known, wealthy customers who paid undisclosed but presumably hefty sums for their

NASA plans to send the four around the moon and back late next year.... Investigations into the capsule’s heat shield, however, could delay this first lunar trip by astronauts in more than half a century.... Last year’s test flight around the moon, with no one on board, resulted in unexpected charring and loss of material from the heat shield at the bottom of the capsule....

StarPicks FOSTERING STUDENT SUCCESS THROUGH HOLISTIC SUPPORT Plans call for the Axiom-3 crew to spend roughly 14 days in microgravity conducting more than 30 scientific experiments, many of them focused on the effects of spaceflight on human health and disease.... He also commanded Axiom's debut mission-the first all-private voyage to the ISS-in April 2022. His second-in-command for Ax-3 is Italian Air Force Colonel Walter Villadei, 49.... Rounding out the team are Swedish aviator Marcus Wandt