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June 5, 2024
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Watch the historic launch of Boeing’s first crewed Starliner mission
Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to ride aboard the Starliner capsule on a journey that takes them to the International Space Station. Weather conditions are 90% favorable for a Wednesday morning launch …
Space.com

Father’s Day telescope deals: Save $400 on Unistellar smart telescopes
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The New York Times

Live Updates: NASA and Boeing Prepare to Launch Astronauts on Starliner Spacecraft
NASA astronauts will try again on Wednesday morning to reach orbit on a new Boeing spacecraft. The space agency retired its space shuttles in 2011. For the next nine years, Russian Soyuz rockets were the only way for NASA to go to and from the …
Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: NASA, Boeing and ULA prepare third launch attempt of the Starliner Crew Flight Test
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, Friday, May 31, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in …
Space.com

SpaceX launching 20 Starlink satellites tonight, including 13 direct-to-cell craft
a black-and-white spacex falcon 9 rocket launches into a night sky. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Florida on May 31, …
Space.com

SpaceX congratulates Boeing, ULA on 1st crewed Starliner launch
SpaceX bigwigs celebrated the arrival of a new American capsule on the human-spaceflight scene today (June 5). That spacecraft is Boeing’s Starliner, which is carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space …
Scientific American

Boeing’s Starliner Launches Astronauts for First Time in Historic Liftoff
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on June 05, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission is sending …
Scientific American

NASA Refuses Hubble Rescue Mission and Trims the Space Telescope’s Science
After more than three decades in orbit, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is showing its age. This image of Hubble was taken by an astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on May 19, 2009, shortly after the completion of the shuttle program’s final …
The Washington Post

Rocket carrying Boeing’s Starliner enters orbit in historic crewed mission
The astronauts, Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, are NASA veterans who had been expected to spend about eight days on the International Space Station before returning to Earth in the Starliner capsule.
Space.com

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