Damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft survives reentry, Shenzhou-23 arrives at spaceport
HELSINKI — China’s damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returned safely to Earth after on-orbit internal repairs, concluding the country’s first…
NASA’s Artemis 2 Is Sending Some Legendary Artifacts Around the Moon
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission will send a crew of astronauts around the Moon for the first time in…
5 Ways NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Will Make Spaceflight History
After years of delays, NASA’s mission to send a crew of astronauts around the Moon and back again…
NASA unveils Artemis 2 launch windows: What we know
Crews transport NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft from the Multi-Payload Processing Facility to the Launch Abort System Facility…
Sonic booms expected Sunday morning from SpaceX launch at Vandenberg SFB | Vandenberg Space Force Base
Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties can expect to hear one or more sonic…
New race to the moon: could a German be first this time?
Humans are due to land on the moon again in 2027—a return that comes at a time of…
What will a human mission to Mars look like?
NASA astronauts work on the surface of Mars accompanied by a robotic helicopter and rover as imagined in…
China faces temporary emergency launch gap after space station lifeboat crisis
HELSINKI — China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response…
The space junk crisis: why orbital debris is the next big threat to our future in space
From an astronaut’s point of view, the debris issue isn’t theoretical—it’s existential. Atienza, an analogue astronaut who trains…
The history of alcohol in space
Alcohol has followed humanity beyond Earth, from the first sip of communion wine on the Moon to secret…
Russian cosmonauts drank alcohol hours after a near-disaster on Mir space station
After the fire was extinguished and the immediate dangers had subsided, the cosmonauts partook in the cognac. NASA…
Inside the Soyuz 11 mission that shocked the world
On June 6, 1971, Soviet cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov launched aboard Soyuz 11, destined…