“Due to the high propellant requirement of this final maneuver, the Earth’s natural atmospheric drag will be used as much as possible to lower [the] station’s altitude while setting up deorbit.

Watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission return live as Sunita Williams and crew journey back to Earth. Get real-time updates, ...

A TOP secret US spaceship has touched down on Earth after spending 434 days in orbit. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed ...

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit ...

The 29-foot-long X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last Friday (Mar 7) at 2:22 am local time.

The International Space Station (ISS) may be retired sooner than the planned 2030 deorbit date due to age, cost, and a potential shift in NASA's priorities. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has expressed ...

I recommend two years from now." SpaceX has a contract to build a deorbit vehicle based on its Dragon spacecraft to do the deed, but also has potentially several crewed trips to the space station ...

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said that NASA should deorbit the International Space Station “as soon as possible,” preferably in the next two years, to focus on ...