Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has been docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly a month, with NASA and its commercial partner repeatedly delaying the launch of the crew aboard the capsule. Despite the indefinite postponement of Starliner’s return flight, NASA and Boeing insist the spacecraft is fully operational, capable of returning to Earth at … Read more
At the beginning of this year, the quiet of a Florida neighborhood was shattered when a piece of waste from The International Space Station crashed into a house. That was followed in May by a 90-kilogram piece of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft crashing into a camping resort in North Carolina, raising the question: Are space … Read more
A piece of metal found on a remote trail at a luxury camping resort in North Carolina came from a SpaceX Dragon capsule, NASA said, confirming that the mysterious object was another piece of space debris that recently landed on Earth. The debris came from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had re-entered Earth’s atmosphere after … Read more
WASHINGTON — NASA and SpaceX are considering how to change the Dragon spacecraft’s re-entry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s trunk section that reaches Earth. In some cases, debris from parts of the Dragon spacecraft’s trunk, which are ejected from the capsule before the capsule performs a deorbit burn, have been … Read more