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Author: BY JOHN HERRMAN - Publish Date: October 8, 2021 at 12:57AM Next week, in a thoroughly modern blurring of reality and fiction, William Shatner will soar to space with Blue Origin. Do you care?

Author: BY MICHAEL ROSTON - Publish Date: September 16, 2021 at 02:58AM The launch could occur as early as 8:02 p.m. But the action will begin hours before that.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: September 16, 2021 at 01:00AM Esto es lo que debes saber sobre el viaje espacial de tres días que emprenderán cuatro estadounidenses, ninguno de los cuales es un astronauta profesional.

Author: BY WALTER ISAACSON - Publish Date: July 24, 2021 at 12:32AM Two new books, Eric Berger’s “Liftoff” and Tim Higgins’s “Power Play,” explore Musk’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial pursuits — and what has made him so successful.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: July 12, 2021 at 12:52AM The successful trip was the first in a series to the edge of space and beyond by billionaire entrepreneurs that seek to make human spaceflight more routine.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: June 9, 2021 at 01:40AM The Juno spacecraft completed a close flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, as it transitions into a new phase of its mission.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: June 3, 2021 at 02:49AM One of the spacecraft will probe the hellish planet’s clouds, which could potentially help settle the debate over whether they are habitable by floating microbes.

Author: BY STEVEN LEE MYERS AND KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: May 8, 2021 at 08:51AM Las posibilidades de que impacte con una zona poblada son mínimas, pero existen. Eso ha suscitado dudas sobre el diseño de las misiones espaciales chinas.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: May 2, 2021 at 11:00AM Crew-1, which launched to the space station in November, will head home in the capsule called Resilience.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: April 23, 2021 at 09:44AM It will be the third flight of the company’s Crew Dragon capsule with people onboard.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: January 17, 2021 at 09:29AM An ground ignition of the engines of the Space Launch System was halted after only about a minute.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: December 10, 2020 at 07:06AM The Beresheet lunar landing ended in a crash last year, but the nonprofit SpaceIL wants to try again with a more complex mission.

Author: BY REUTERS - Publish Date: December 10, 2020 at 06:49AM During Wednesday’s test flight of the SpaceX Starship prototype, a rocket Elon Musk envisions ferrying humans to Mars, it launched into the sky but glided back to Earth before it exploded while attempting to land.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG AND ALLYSON WALLER - Publish Date: November 16, 2020 at 08:44AM The crew will spend some 27 hours in a capsule built by the private company before docking with the space station Monday night.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: November 15, 2020 at 12:01PM Here’s what you need to know about four astronauts’ journey to the International Space Station on Sunday.

Author: BY KENNETH CHANG - Publish Date: August 2, 2020 at 11:01AM Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley left the space station on Saturday night, preparing for a Gulf of Mexico splashdown on Sunday.

Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - Publish Date: May 27, 2020 at 11:00AM What you need to know about the mission taking two NASA astronauts to the space station on Wednesday.

Author: SHANNON STIRONE - Publish Date: June 25, 2019 at 07:00AM The powerful rocket will carry an assortment of cargo to orbit, including a solar sail, an atomic clock and the ashes of 152 people.

Author: WILLIAM J. BROAD - Publish Date: December 11, 2018 at 07:00AM Orbiting instruments are now so small they can be launched by the dozens, and even high school students can build them.