Dragon C211 will spend about a month docked to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk will monitor the spacecraft’s arrival on Thursday.

The agency finally reached a decision earlier this month, selecting Blue Origin to develop, launch, and operate a $700 million spacecraft at Mars. However, the main competitor for the award, Rocket Lab, was not happy—at all. On Friday, the company filed a protest of NASA’s decision with the US Government Accountability Office.

Rocket Lab’s out-of-the-blue protest against NASA’s commissioning Blue Origin to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network could torpedo the 2028 launch of the orbiter.

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, named Grace, sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It will launch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has captured its clearest look yet at the aftermath of a SpaceX rocket stage crashing into the moon, revealing a fresh crater and streaks of material blasted across the lunar surface.

High above Earth, thin veils of metallic haze drift through the edge of space. Known as sporadic E layers, these high-altitude "clouds" form from the vaporized dust of burned-up meteors, earning their name from the unpredictable way they emerge and then ...

Ever wonder how the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's towering rockets get from parts to pad? It's a process. On the one hand, you've got the massive barge NASA uses to ferry core stages and rocket components about on American waterways.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 6:33 a.m. Oct. 13. Within minutes, the rocket and its tail could be seen in the morning sky along the South Carolina coast.