A U.S. government shutdown has furloughed over 15,000 nonessential NASA employees. Essential operations, including support for the International Space Station and Artemis moon missions, will continue.

October 2, 1957 - In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1. This was the height of the Cold War and Space Race, prompting the U.S. to build Intercontinental ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration furloughed more than 15,000 employees nationwide, with another 3,000 working without pay following the Wednesday morning shutdown of the federal ...

Inversion, a startup backed by Lockheed Martin and Spark Capital, has reaffirmed its plan for a first flight of its Arc space-based, on-demand cargo delivery vehicle next year, as the spacecraft was ...

The launch, scheduled for mid October from the company's South Texas launch site, would come less than two months after SpaceX conducted its most successful Starship test of the year in late August.