Dan Shaffer

Launch teams with United Launch Alliance scrubbed tonight's scheduled liftoff of the company's Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida due to a technical glitch. The rocket was to launch the first crewed flight of Boeing's new Starliner capsule to the ISS. An anomaly was detected in an oxygen relief valve on the Centaur upper stage of the rocket.

How many astronauts does it take to move a spacecraft from one side of the International Space Station to the other? Thursday morning, four astronauts climbed into their SpaceX Dragon capsule to move it from one docking port to another. Now, Dragon can do that by itself. But if something goes wrong during the move, astronauts need to be on board to take over, and possibly use Dragon to return to earth. If not, their ride home would be lost in space. Thanksfully, everything went smoothly.

A new report by NASA's Office of Inspector General reveals dangerous and unexpected damage to critical hardware, following the Artemis I test flight in 2022.