12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
... the threshold at 100 kilometres (62 miles). This mission was another step towards verifying New Shepard for human spaceflight as we continue to mature the safety and reliability of the vehicle. One day, a capsule affixed to the rocket's summit...
01 June 2020
SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks at ISS
... Space Station on Sunday aboard the first commercially built and operated American spacecraft to carry humans to orbit, opening a new era in human spaceflight. The pair of astronauts docked to the space station’s Harmony module at 16:16 pm GMT Sunday...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... and launcher manufacturing, an aerospace and space technology applications centre, space supply chain companies and human spaceflight. Astraius and Prestwick Spaceport have succeeded in maintaining a low-profile during development, prior to the...
10 March 2021
Russia and China agree to build joint international lunar base
... agency is now able to transport its crew via SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which it formally certified for commercial human spaceflight in November 2020. NASA has signed up for six crewed missions with SpaceX as part of the agency's Commercial...
15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
For the first time in 60 years of human spaceflight, a rocket is set to launch four people into ... International Space Station (ISS). This is significantly further than the spaceflights offered by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, which settle for the...
18 January 2022
First of 40 planned launches for China
... of Sciences (CAS) developed the Shiyan-13 satellite and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) provided the launcher. The first in a series of Shiyan ... is completed, it will become the longest China human spaceflight mission to date.
