April 2025
Racing to the Moon
.... If it proceeds as planned, Gateway will help test the technologies and capabilities required for a sustained human presence... status in more detail. Long March 10 achieved clustered engine tests in June 2024 and a first flight is expected in 2027...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... Facility (VIF), where it awaits the Integrated Systems Test; a tip-to-tail electrical check of the 172-foot... "Alien" films. Boeing aim to send a similar anthropometric test dummy on their test flight, but this one is called “Rosie the Astronaut” ...
13 December 2019
Starliner spacecraft could fly as early as next week
... launch on 20 December, 2019. The Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test, which is a necessary step before the first Starliner launch with... of data showing the Starliner for the Orbital Flight Test matches Boeing’s design and “mission data load,” which...
28 May 2025
SpaceX faces renewed scrutiny over Mars ambitions after Starship malfunctions
... the most viable candidate for colonisation in this century. To achieve this, SpaceX has pursued an aggressively iterative testing model, often prioritising speed over caution. Failures, in this context, are embraced as steps on a steep and uncertain...
