Artemis IV will mark the second lunar landing of the Artemis program and build upon what is learned at the moon’s south pole on Artemis III. “After his voyage to the Moon’s surface during Apollo…
An unpiloted Chinese spacecraft launched late Monday and linked up with the country’s Tiangong space station a few hours later, providing a lifeboat for three astronauts stuck in orbit without a safe ride home. A…
This view shows a Shenzhou spacecraft departing the Tiangong space station in 2023. Credit: China Manned Space Agency Swapping spacecraft in low-Earth orbit With their original spacecraft deemed unsafe, Chen and his crewmates instead rode…
And without the ISS, Russia’s human spaceflight program might be dead today. Ins and outs of HTV-X Yui used the outpost’s robotic arm to grapple the HTV-X spacecraft at 11:58 am EDT (15:58 UTC) on…