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Spacesuit for future NASA mission to Moon unveiled

Mark Felix with Chris Lefkow in Washington, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 16 06:26 AM

NASA and Axiom Space unveiled a prototype on Wednesday of the next-generation spacesuit that astronauts will wear on the next mission to the Moon. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: March 3, 2023

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Posted at Mar 04 12:01 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Dawn launch for SpaceX Crew-6 mission

Jim Watson, AFP
Posted at Mar 03 02:42 PM

The SpaceX Crew-6 mission lifts off on a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more »

Boeing's Starliner launches for ISS in key test

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 20 08:47 AM

American aerospace giant Boeing launched its Starliner capsule for the International Space Station Thursday in a critical uncrewed test flight that followed years of failures and false starts. Read more »

Chinese astronauts give live science lecture from space station

Rachel Yeo, South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 10 01:45 PM

Pupils from Hong Kong, Macau and various mainland regions such as Guangxi and Sichuan attend hour-long space lecture with three astronauts from Shenzhou 13 crew Read more »

SpaceX to launch 4 astronauts to ISS

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 09:59 AM

After a series of delays, SpaceX is set to launch 4 astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday night on the "Crew-3" mission. Read more »

NASA orders rare medical delay in launch of SpaceX mission to space station

Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman, Reuters
Posted at Nov 02 09:01 AM

NASA announced on Monday a rare, health-related delay in its SpaceX rocket launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, the second postponement of the mission in a week, citing an unspecified medical issue with one of the crew. Read more »

China space program hit by coronavirus outbreak

Jack Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Oct 21 01:18 PM

The coronavirus outbreak in northern China has hit the country’s space program, halting development of a rocket to launch satellites into orbit, according to the state-backed company behind the project. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 11, 2021

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Posted at Oct 11 11:38 PM

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SpaceX's first all-civilian orbital mission returns to Earth

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 19 08:16 AM

Four SpaceX tourists landed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida Saturday evening (Sunday in Manila) after spending three days in space. Read more »

Xi affirms importance of China’s space ambitions

Laura Zhou and William Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at Sep 18 10:10 AM

Chinese eyes were on the skies this week, with the safe return of its three astronauts after 90 days on board the Tiangong space station on Friday, and a tour on Wednesday of the PLA’s primary satellite control facility by President Xi Jinping, who said space was an important asset that needed to be managed well. Read more »

Great Earth views: US, French astronauts make 6-hour ISS spacewalk

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 21 11:51 AM

A French and an American astronaut completed a six-hour spacewalk Monday as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said.  Read more »

China ready to launch first crew to new space station

Ludovic Ehret and Poornima Weerasekara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 11:57 AM

The first crew for China's new space station prepared to blast off this week for the latest step in Beijing's ambitious program to establish itself as a space power. Read more »

Blast off: SpaceX launches four astronauts to International Space Station

Issam Ahmed and Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 16 11:03 AM

Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring.   Read more »

US astronaut crew on SpaceX's Crew Dragon to cast ballots from space

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Posted at Sep 30 07:36 AM

Three NASA astronauts launching next month on SpaceX's first operational Crew Dragon mission plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election from the International Space Station, the crew said Tuesday as they named the spacecraft "Resilience."   Read more »

SpaceX rocket lifts off on historic private crewed flight

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 31 08:12 AM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying two veteran NASA astronauts lifted off on Saturday on an historic first private crewed flight into space.   Read more »

Coronavirus forces detour for homecoming astronauts

Reuters
Posted at Apr 17 03:55 PM

ALMATY - NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual - and more exhausting - route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare official said, because of lockdowns caused by the novel coronavirus.   Read more »

Coronavirus spoils NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

Joey Roulette, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 20 07:32 PM

WASHINGTON - The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA's plan to return Americans to the moon by 2024, as the space agency chief on Thursday ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an employee tested positive for the illness. Read more »