SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully finished a test reboost of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Sept. 3), according to NASA. The freighter fired two of its Draco engines for 5 minutes and 3 seconds during the maneuver, agency officials wrote in a Wednesday statement.

After a few months docked at the ISS, the Dragon cargo capsule will depart and head for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. SpaceX will recover the pressurized capsule to fly again, while the trunk containing the reboost kit will jettison and burn up in the atmosphere.

NASA named 10 new astronaut candidates for its 24th class of astronauts Monday, including one person who has already been to space. Anna Menon, 39, a SpaceX engineer from Houston, was one of the four crew on Jared Isaacman’s Polaris Dawn mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center in 2024 and was one of the six women and four men announced to join the astronaut corps.

Menon's classmates in the 2025 NASA astronaut candidate class — the 24th in the agency's history, and its first since 2021 — are Ben Bailey, Lauren Edgar, Adam Fuhrmann, Cameron Jones, Yuri Kubo, Rebecca Lawler, Imelda Muller, Erin Overcash and Katherine Spies. You can learn more about each of them in our announcement story.

As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated last week to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon’s alternative, Boeing’s Starliner. “NASA is ...

Amid an escalating feud between billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Musk threatened to decommission the Dragon spacecraft. Dragon is a family of spacecraft that is produced by Musk's technology company SpaceX. Various Dragon spacecraft have ...

This is not the first time the Cygnus cargo spacecraft has encountered setbacks. During the previous NG-21 mission, the spacecraft also failed to complete the planned ascent ignition due to low tank pressure and ultimately arrived at the International Space Station on time only by relying on a backup plan.

Twenty percent of NASA's 2025 astronaut candidates are Purdue University graduates, adding to the university's legacy as the Cradle of Astronauts.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into the clear night sky on Sunday, Aug. 24, hoisting a Dragon spacecraft full of supplies to the International Space Station. Known as CRS-33, the mission took off at 2:45 a.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...

SpaceX’s Dragon, which arrived at the ISS on August 25, completed the burn on Wednesday to test the spacecraft’s new capability of boosting the station’s altitude, NASA said. Such reboosts are vital as they counteract the station’s gradual loss of altitude caused by atmospheric drag.