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China on May 30 achieved a historic milestone in its space program by sending its first civilian astronaut to space. Gui Haichao, a professor at the Beihang University in Beijing regarded as a payload specialist, joined two military astronauts on the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft that blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China at 9:31 a.m. local time.

When astronauts return to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years as part of NASA’s Artemis III mission, they will be wearing Axiom Space’s next-generation spacesuit to walk on the lunar surface.

Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who is best remembered for flying the Apollo 7 mission in October 1968 and second American civilian to...

The world has seen the four astronauts shooting up to reach the International Space Station in the first SpaceX operational trip. Of the four,...

Astronaut Christina Koch gets the distinction of serving the longest number of days in space. She has now spent 328 days in the International...

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch have just made history by conducting the first all-female spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on...

Two NASA astronauts made history when they successfully completed the first All Woman Spacewalk. The task of Christina Koch and Jessica Meir was to replace...

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev,...

NASA is for making history by sending first humans to explore the region near the lunar South Pole. The Space Agency will...

NASA on August 29, 2022 called off the launch of its ambitious colossal rocketship (Artemis) it hopes will one day fly astronauts...