Musk Donates $50M To St. Jude Fund-Raising

After three days orbiting Earth, the astronauts of Inspiration4 flying aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 7:06 p.m. EDT. The return marks the completion of the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit, which launched on a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Dragon performed a series of departure phasing burns to leave the circular orbit of 575 kilometers and then jettisoned its trunk ahead of its deorbit burn. After re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, the spacecraft deploye

Mission Set To Explore Human History Through The Cosmos

NASA has set the date for the James Webb Space Telescope to be launched into orbit, where it will serve as a deep space observatory for the next ten years. The telescope will be launched December 18, 2021. A major turning point for the mission was completing testing and establishing the launch date after coordination with Arianespace. Webb is led by NASA and partnered with the  ESA and the Canadian Space Agency. Ariane 5 will launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana located on the northeastern coast of South America. ESA is providing the Ariane 5.