Human Spaceflight Capability News Today

Somanath, speaking on the sidelines of the inauguration of space-tech startup Pixxels new manufacturing facility, MegaPixxel, said Isro will have at least two test flights to demonstrate abort scenarios and a few helicopter drop tests which demonstrate the parachutes and failure modes.

During the Gaganyaan mission, Vyommitra is designed to perform certain tasks to assess how humans would act when sent into space.

The first time on friday but the highland highly anticipated launch did not go quite as planned but christina has more on what went wrong. hello, christina. reporter: this on crude orbital taste test flight was had a major timing - the good news was the star liner did have a successful touchdown today. nasa says marks the first time in u.s. history that a human rated capsule return from orbit and made a round landing. nasa says that his article because the information gained from this trip will ...

Underscores the need to reestablish americas human spaceflight capability as soon as possible. joining me now is managing editor of space.com. so were in a bit of a quandary here. we have astronauts up in space literally with no way to get home unless russia helps us. >> thats exactly where we are. for three years now we havent had any american vehicles capable of flying astronauts or our partners. nasa gives rides to them, too. were responsible buying seats with russia until we can get a spaces...