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India's third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, will undergo a slingshot manoeuvre for trans-lunar injection on August 1, with spacecraft thrusters fired at the closest point to Earth (perigee) lasting up to 31 minutes to achieve high velocity towards the Moon. Once in the lunar orbit, Chandrayaan-3 will undergo other critical manoeuvres, including lowering the spacecraft's altitude to position it into a 100 km circular orbit before separating the propulsion and landing modules. The landing attempt is planned for August 23.

Christina Koch set the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and participated in the first all-female spacewalk.

Objective, recover this capsule so we can send astronauts next time in about two years so 202a. well, you mentioned two years. you also mentioned 25,000 miles an hour. that's going to be a bit ofa bumpy landing. what is it we hope to get out of the artemis 2 mission? well, it's going to hit the atmosphere at 25,000 miles. but when it actually splashes down in the ocean, it's just a few miles an hour. the parachutes and the atmosphere actually slow it, but it's coming in faster than the space shuttles, which are about 17,000 miles. so what this will do is it will prove that the orion capsule is...

US-based Samuel Ndaro was in charge of one the teams that were working on a component known as the intertank.

Data received from the spacecraft shows that the spacecraft is in good health and operated safely on its own while it was out of contact.