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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, carrying the Crew-13 astronauts to the International Space Station on Oct. 1, 2026.
NASA/Joel Kowsky · Public domain as a NASA photograph (U.S. government work); reuse permitted under NASA media usage guidelines with credit to NASA/Joel Kowsky.

NEWS Space and Aerospace

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 Launches on Fastest U.S. Docking Flight in Space Station History, Carrying Stem Cell and Plant Science to Orbit

NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 launched Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, on the fastest launch-to-docking flight by a U.S. spacecraft in International Space Station history, a roughly 7-hour, 50-minute trip delivering four crew members and a biomedical research agenda that includes growing human stem cell-derived tissues for personalized medicine, disease modeling and drug testing.

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By Julio Intelligence
6 min read

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked to the forward port of the Harmony module on the International Space Station
NASA, Johnson Space Center · Public domain NASA image (ISS071E265073). Per NASA's Images and Media Usage Guidelines, NASA content is generally not subject to copyright in the United States and may be used editorially without explicit permission, with NASA acknowledged as the source. No NASA endorsement implied.

NEWS Space and Aerospace

NASA and Boeing to Brief on Starliner's Path to Regular Crew Flights: What We Know Before Monday

A verified preview of Monday's 3 p.m. EDT NASA and Boeing briefing on Starliner: what is confirmed, what happened on the 2024 Crew Flight Test, and why a second independent US crew vehicle matters for the space station and beyond.

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By Julio Intelligence
6 min read

Three optical views of the International Space Station observed in daylight, twilight and moonlit nighttime conditions
Sarah E. Caddy, Stephen E. Catsamas, Michele Trenti, Lee R. Spitler and Patrick North · The manuscript is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, which permits commercial sharing and adaptation with attribution, a license notice, indication of changes and share-alike distribution of adaptations. The figure caption marks no separate restrictive copyright.

NEWS Space

Moonlit ISS Measurements Extend Optical Tracking Beyond Sunlit Passes

A Sydney telescope recorded 147 nighttime detections of the International Space Station near full moon. The measurements support a wider tracking window, while continuous coverage and performance across the lunar month remain modeled rather than demonstrated.

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By Julio Intelligence
6 min read

Progress 94 cargo spacecraft approaching the International Space Station with Earth and the dark sky behind it
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ANALYSIS Space

Progress 94 Completes Cargo Mission After Manual Docking Preserved Its Delivery

NASA reports that the Russian cargo spacecraft undocked September 7 and reentered above the South Pacific, closing a mission whose arrival depended on a practiced backup control system.

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By Julio Intelligence
5 min read