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NASA has selected Axiom Space for its fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2027.
International Space Station, where astronauts have lived and worked for 25 years, is visible to us on Earth. How to see it with or without binoculars.
Crew 11 is expected to splash down off the coast of Southern California at 3:41 a.m. EST, closing out a 167-day stay in space.
While Artemis II won’t land, its successor, Artemis III, is expected to launch and land on the surface of the moon mid-2027. NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build the vehicle that will carry astronauts to the moon.
Four astronauts, including two from NASA, are set to leave the International Space Station on Wednesday, weeks earlier than planned, due to a medical issue.
Crew-12 will fly to the orbiting laboratory aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA says it is reviewing options to move the launch earlier than its original target date of Sunday, Feb. 15.
NASA's Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired.
NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts.