Letting AST launch its proposed spacecraft without addressing the collision risk 'would be irresponsible' and potentially ...

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX on Tuesday slammed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator Mike Whitaker for his comments defending delays in greenlighting the next launch of its Starship ...

But the company has faced safety issues in the past too. A Reuters investigation in 2022 found that SpaceX's manufacturing and launch facility in Brownsville, Texas had an injury rate of 4.8 per ...

SpaceX has been moving at a breakneck pace, and rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility ...

Sep. 27—SpaceX is ready to go with its fifth Starship suborbital test flight from Boca Chica/Starbase, ... citing safety concerns, and says it won't do so before late November.

SpaceX is anxious to get Starship operational; the company is under a $2.89 billion contract to use the megarocket in landing humans on the Moon by late 2025 as part of NASA’s Artemis 3 mission ...

Gerstenmaier, a former NASA manager who now oversees safety at SpaceX, emphasized that this parachute analysis is not a safety concern for flight but more of a learning exercise. "This is a super ...

“After a comprehensive review, the FAA determined no public safety issues were involved in the anomaly that occurred during the SpaceX Starship (Orbital Flight Test-3) launch on March 14,” the ...

Under the program, NASA would rely on capsules developed and operated on a commercial basis by Boeing Co.BA 0.33 % increase; green up pointing triangle and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

NASA’s safety panel urged the agency and SpaceX to “maintain focus” amid recent mission setbacks, equipment malfunctions and last week’s hospitalization of a crew returning from the ...

NASA Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Spacecraft NASA's commercial crew transportation program had hoped to send six crewed missions to the ISS between 2019 and 2024.

NASA's plan to routinely ferry astronauts into orbit using private spacecraft--initially slated to start last year--has now slipped until at least the spring of 2019 and unresolved hazards ...