Chinese astronauts have performed the country’s first ‘tandem spacewalk’ that involved them working for seven hours outside the Tiangong space station. Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo stepped outside the Tianhe core module of the station on Sunday to position a camera and test a robotic arm. In a clip of Liu leaving the cabin, he … Read more
China rolled out its Long March-2F Y12 rocket to its launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Wednesday in preparation of sending astronauts to the nations’ new orbiting modular space station. The three-person crew is set to board the Shebzhou-12 spacecraft next week and blast off to the main section of the Tianhe, or … Read more
The International Space Station will be crowded a little longer after NASA and SpaceX announced a delayed return for the Crew-1 mission. Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi were set undock from the orbiting laboratory April 28, but poor weather has pushed it to April 30. This means the Crew Dragon … Read more
The International Space Station will be crowded a little longer after NASA and SpaceX announced a delayed return for the Crew-1 mission. Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi were set undock from the orbiting laboratory April 28, but poor weather has pushed it to April 30. This means the Crew Dragon … Read more
SpaceX will launch four astronauts from three different space agencies for the International Space Station this morning using a recycled capsule and rocket. The astronauts from the US, Japan and France, are scheduled to blast off from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:49 BST. It will carry NASA astronauts … Read more
Looking for something cosmic for your next holiday? Then try a simulated space mission inside a former nuclear bunker near the Polish city of Pila that has been repurposed to mimic the International Space Station – and the surface of the Moon. The ex-military airport installation, once used to store SU-22 fighter-bombers, has been transformed into … Read more
Travelling to Mars could affect the mind of the astronauts making the long journey – leaving them more likely to misidentify facial expressions, study warns. Current NASA plans could see the first humans step foot on the surface of the Red Planet by the end of the next decade as part of the Artemis mission. … Read more
Astronauts of the Artemis era, heading back to the moon this decade, are ‘made of the same stuff’ as the early Apollo adventurers, says the man who wrote the book on the first human lunar landings. A Man on the Moon was first published in 1994 and tells the story of the real life adventurers … Read more
NASA and SpaceX are in final preparations to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Falcon 9 rocket and have announced two crew members making the journey for the first time. The second crewed mission of the commercial spacecraft will launch from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida no sooner … Read more
NASA has revealed two astronauts that will launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission. Astronauts Kjell Lindgren, 48, and Bob Hines, 46, have been elected as spacecraft commander and pilot for the mission set to take off in 2022 about a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). This will be Lindgren’s second … Read more