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.
Elon Musk's company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station, NASA's first commercial crew mission.
NASA has discovered molecular water on the lunar surface, trapped within natural glasses or between debris grains. Water is a precious resource and a relatively plentiful lunar presence could prove important to future astronaut and robotic missions.
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner landed on Earth southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan completing their mission aboard the ISS.
The minivan-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will send back images of the sample collected from the Bennu asteroid and, if a successful collection is confirmed, the spacecraft will journey back toward Earth, arriving in 2023.
The Artemis Accords signed by eight nations promises to be the largest coalition for a human spaceflight programme in history.
US Congress will have to sign off on the financing for the project, which has been estimated to cost $28 billion. The project has been set by President Donald Trump as a top priority.
US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew Dragon and safely returned to Earth after a two-month voyage.
The Jezero Crater, which has a similar mineral makeup to the lake in Turkey, is the planned landing site for NASA’s Perseverance rover.
The latest rover Perseverance has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida in the world’s third and final Mars launch of the summer.
Kathy Lueders joined NASA in 1992 and has worked with the space shuttle and International Space Station programs.
Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley docked with International Space Station in just 19 hours, a day after a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center with the spacecraft.
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