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Even a successful crewed test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicle could create a temporary hiccup in plans to exchange seats between commercial crew vehicles and Soyuz spacecraft going to the International Space Station.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson informed a House committee that budget constraints resulted in cuts to agency programs and urged them to allocate funds for a space station deorbit vehicle in a supplemental funding bill.

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded MDA Space a contract extension worth around $182 million to continue supporting robotics operations on the International Space Station until 2030.

NASA shared a spooky view of the moon’s shadow passing over Earth.

A Soyuz spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station on March 23, two days after a rare last-minute launch delay.

NASA and Boeing are working towards the first crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in early May, which is the final milestone before the vehicle is approved for regular flights to the International Space Station.

On March 21, a cargo spacecraft was launched toward the International Space Station, just hours after a rare last-minute cancellation of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launch to the station.

A study of multiple NASA, ESA, and JAXA astronauts indicates a link between extended space travel and headaches.

A Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, at 5:47 a.m. Eastern on March 12, bringing back a crew from the International Space Station after more than six months.

The first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner has slipped from late April to early May because of International Space Station schedule conflicts and not due to any issues with the spacecraft itself.