Technology has come a long way since NASA’s first Apollo missions. 40 years later, it aims to reflect those advances in its next-generation spacesuits.
The crew's six-month science mission will encompass about 200 experiments and technology demonstrations, from research on human cell growth to controlling combustible materials in microgravity.
After 183 days in space, three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth on Saturday completing the country's longest crewed space mission to date.
The astronauts' physics lecture was open to the public through a livestream, and focused on how the weightless environment affects the movement of objects and optics.
US officials condemn a Russian weapons test which created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk now 'threatening' the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
It took 21 hours for the flight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.
Two crew members conduct first of the two spacewalks, working for seven hours outside of new Tiangong station in orbit around Earth.
The first astronauts have arrived at China’s new space station, blasting off on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwest China’s Gobi desert.
China has prioritised space exploration in recent years, with the aim of becoming a major space power by 2030.
The mission marks the second "operational" space station team launched by NASA aboard a Crew Dragon capsule since human spaceflights resumed from American soil last year following a nine-year hiatus.
Resilience spacecraft arrives at space station for a six-month stay in Elon Musk company’s second astronaut mission. The crew is comprised of three Americans and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi.
US astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, returned to Earth on Thursday after spending 328 days aboard the International Space Station.
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