Kenneth Chang
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Starship Explosion a Setback, But Not a Total Failure For SpaceX and Musk
The first flight of the most powerful rocket ever was not the success that Elon Musk and his company hoped for, but the launch achieved...
A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’
A small company, Astrolab, announced a deal with SpaceX to send a robotic version of its transport vehicle to the lunar surface and help deploy...
2023 Abel Prize in Mathematics Honors Luis Caffarelli
The honor, like a Nobel Prize for mathematics, was given this year to Luis Caffarelli for his work on partial differential equations.
NASA Launched and Landed LOFTID, an Inflatable Flying Saucer Heat Shield
The LOFTID mission tested a novel approach to guiding spacecraft through the extreme heat of returning from orbit, which could be used to put people...
China Lucks Out Again as Out-of-Control Rocket Booster Falls in the Pacific
For the fourth time, the country’s space program used a 23-ton launcher that made an uncontrolled re-entry back to Earth, prompting nervous sky-watching and airspace...
NASA May Let Billionaire Astronaut and SpaceX Lift Hubble Telescope
Jared Isaacman, who traveled to orbit on the Inspiration4 mission, is pursuing a private space program in collaboration with Elon Musk’s rocket company.
Bezos’ Rocket Crashes; No People Were Aboard
The capsule carrying experiments escaped damage. The F.A.A. is investigating the mishap.
Private Mars Landing Mission Aims to Beat SpaceX
Relativity Space, which could launch its first rocket soon, and Impulse Space, founded by a SpaceX veteran, optimistically say that together they can reach the...
Boeing’s Starliner Docks With Space Station for NASA
If it returns to Earth successfully next week, the space taxi built for NASA could carry astronauts to orbit later this year.
How to Watch the Boeing Starliner Launch for NASA
The aerospace giant’s astronaut capsule has yet to complete a successful test flight to the space station, while SpaceX has carried seven crews into orbit.