Three Chinese astronauts have returned home following a months-long stay on the Tiangong space station, where the crew carried out a number of experiments and construction projects on orbital modules during their mission. The astronauts landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region on Saturday morning after a nine-hour journey, during which …
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NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Meghan McArthur, as well as Akihiko Hoshide of Japan’s JAXA and Thomas Pesquet of the ESA, were asked to “limit the system’s use during the Crew-2 return, downhill portion of the mission,” NASA’s Commercial Crew program manager, Steve Stitch, said on Friday. The malfunction of the space toilet …
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Astronaut transfer van, or Astrovan, was used to drive astronauts to and from the launchpad during the Space Shuttle era, while its predecessor delivered astronaut crews of several Apollo missions. The shiny silver Shuttle-era vehicle became so well-liked by the crews that astronauts reportedly objected to it being replaced, and …
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Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, and Liu Boming docked with the Tiangong space station in June, beginning a three-month stay in space that represents China’s longest crewed mission to date. On Sunday morning, Liu and Tang exited the station’s core module – the first of two planned spacewalks during their mission. …
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon ‘Resilience’ capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, Florida early on Sunday. The spacecraft brought three NASA astronauts and one from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) home from the International Space Station (ISS). “We welcome you back to planet Earth, and …
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From 2011 to last year, the US relied on Russia’s Soyuz launch system to send its astronauts to live on the ISS, with America not having its own capability. In May 2020, Crew Dragon, a reusable spacecraft made by Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX, took two Americans to space for …
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Yang Liwei, China’s first astronaut and now a member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) broke the news on Saturday, explaining that the tightly packed spaceflight schedule was to facilitate the speedy construction of a new Chinese orbital station. The upcoming missions are set to …
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The Progress MS-16 spacecraft, which was due to be launched on December 11, would have brought rations to Russian cosmonauts stationed on the ISS. Its delay to February 15 prompted the Americans to share some of their own food. “When we asked the Americans about delivering our rations on their …
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As well as Roscosmos, the proposed sanctions would also target Rosatom, the federal nuclear energy agency, as one of 28 organizations in the aviation, rocket, space, nuclear, instrument and engine industries. According to news agency RIA Novosti, which has seen the document, the suggested measures are also aimed at Chinese …
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The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 7:27pm ET (0:27GMT on Monday) and was set for a rendezvous with the ISS some 27 hours later. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday, but had to be postponed due to forecasts of gusty winds. NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, …
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