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  NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX are set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Halloween NASA announced a new target for the Crew-1 mission - October 31 at 2:49am ET This mission will send four astronauts aboard a SpaceX rocket to the ISS The event follows the successful mission of Demo-2 in May  The new team will spend six months on the ISS conducing research  By  STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED:   17:40, 29 September 2020  |  UPDATED:   17:59, 29 September 2020           e-mail   7 shares 18 View comments NASA  announced four astronauts will launch to the International Space Station aboard a  SpaceX  Falcon 9 rocket during the early hours of  Halloween  Day. The Crew-1 mission is set to liftoff at 2:40am ET, which follows the successful Demo-2 test flight in May that was manned by NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. The new mission will be flown by Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker of NASA and S

  Blue Origin and partners pass key milestone for lunar lander design Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the aerospace team that it’s leading has completed its first “gated milestone” in a NASA-funded effort to develop a lunar lander for crewed missions. The milestone — known as the system requirement review, or SRR — involves specifying the baseline requirements for the missions, the space vehicles and the landing system’s ground segment. “The design proceeded to the NASA Certification Baseline Review, followed by the lower-level element SRRs and the preliminary design phase,”  Blue Origin reported today in a news release . Blue Origin leads what it calls a  “National Team”  in the first phase of the NASA’s Human Landing System development process. While Blue Origin is working on the system’s descent module, Lockheed Martin is responsible for the ascent module, Northrop Grumman is in charge of the transfer module that would get the lander into low lunar orbit, and D

  Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo could launch again next month as the firm gears up to send billionaire founder Richard Branson into orbit by early 2021 Virgin Galactic revealed its founder Richard Branson will be its first passenger  Branson is set to launch into Earth's orbit in the spaceplane early 2021 The firm are sending a powered test flight into space by the end of autumn  Virgin Galactic competes with other ventures such as Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin  By  RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE    and  AFP PUBLISHED:   13:11, 7 September 2020  |  UPDATED:   17:48, 7 September 2020           e-mail   7 shares 65 View comments Virgin Galactic will launch the next crewed test flight of SpaceShipTwo by the end of autumn, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The test flight will see two pilots launch for the edge of space from Spaceport America in New Mexico as early as October 22, the filing revealed. This will likely be the penultimate test flight