Video from the launch shows the rocket taking off from the pad,flying into the air and then coming back down to crash into the sea in a fiery explosion.
A private European aerospace company has hailed its first rocket launch as a success,even though the rocket crashed into the sea off Norway 30 seconds after liftoff.
As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth,a key player in Australia’s burgeoning space industry sat on the launch pad.
Samantha Harvey’s 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital follows a single day in the lives of six astronauts.
The NASA astronauts splashed down off the coast of Tallahassee,hitching a ride back to Earth to close out a space saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago.
NASA’s two stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth,closing out a marathon mission.
The risks and hazards of extended stints in space are well understood,and the health of stranded astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be monitored for years to come.
After nine months,a return home is in sight for two astronauts on the International Space Station.
Meet Jared Isaacman,a daredevil private astronaut and billionaire ally of Elon Musk who has been lined up by Donald Trump to lead NASA.
“Unfortunately,this happened last time too,so we’ve got some practice now,” SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot said on the live stream.