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Much of the world held its collective breath July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to walk on the moon. When

Indian-origin astronaut Raja Chari, who docked to the International Space Station last year, is set to return home...

Christmas Days spent in space were rare in the early years of space exploration, but have become customary since the ISS became continuously occupied in 2000.

Raw turkey, rogue baubles and pine needles, everywhere – here's how not to celebrate Christmas in space.

A brief account of the 24-hour mutiny during the Skylab 4 mission in 1973/4 triggered by the astronauts' complaints of excessive workloads.

When thinking back about the early days of NASA’s crewed space exploration we too often jump from the Apollo program to the Space Shuttle, skipping a very important mission: Skylab. Skylab was the first American space station, an orbiting workshop, and over the 6 months it was occupied, it vastly expanded human understanding of space exploration, from what space does to the human body to carrying out incredible scientific observations from orbit. The pivotal mission featured in the 2019 docum...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentines Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gu...

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. An astronaut snapped this picture of the Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft while outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk Jan. 27. Credit: NASA The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that carried four astronauts to the International Space Station in...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Sunday said that the crew of Dragon spacecraft of Elon Musk's SpaceX is all set to break the record for most days in space. Four flight engineers, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi, docked the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the US module last November."They will surpass the record of 84 days set by the Skylab 4 crew on February 8, 1974," NASA said.

US astronauts living aboard the ISS orbital outpost will break the record on Sunday for most days in space by a crew launched aboard a US spacecraft, NASA said