01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
...Shannon Walker to the first operational crewed flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Walker will join NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr., as well as Soichi Noguchi of the Japan...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... and has even kept the nation from participating in the International Space Station (ISS). China has though started constructing its own larger, more permanent space station and has invited applications from around the world to conduct...
02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
... orbiting above Earth, but that is how astronauts filled the breach on a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station when it was found in 2018. Now, according to Russian news site RIA, the company behind the manufacturers...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... of astronauts to its new space station, many see China’s latest ambitions as the beginning of a formidable space race with the US. As... including schematics of the joint International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) were also unveiled at GLEX 2021 with...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
... … As much as it’s worth celebrating, many of us are looking forward to it just being normal.” Six people are serving on the space station's current Expedition 61: Koch, Meir, and fellow NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, the European...
02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
...in the summer of 2021. “We’ve entered a bold new era of space exploration with the Artemis program, and we are thrilled to see so ... Program -- to live and work aboard the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth. There they will take part...
