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Russia is Partnering with China to Get an Asteroid Sample and to Study a Comet

Russian space program which has been dormant for decades and which has mainly focused on ISS transportation is waking up…

4 years ago

Russia’s Return to the Moon and Future Russian Moon Mission Plans

Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to…

4 years ago

Soyuz crew launches to ISS space station to Celebrate the 60 years after first human spaceflight

A three-person crew embarked for the International Space Station on Friday (April 9), launching just three days shy of the…

4 years ago

NASA delays Ingenuity Mars UAV Helicopter initial atmospheric flight to April 11

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will have to wait a few more days to make its historic first flight on the…

4 years ago

The Covid19 Pandemic will Cost NASA Around 3 Billion Dollars

A NASA audit concluded that costs imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on the agency could reach $3 billion, with several…

4 years ago

Virgin Galactic Aborts SpaceShipTwo Suborbital Spaceflight

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo aborted an attempted suborbital spaceflight Dec. 12 from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo…

4 years ago

SpaceX Starship prototype makes first high-altitude flight but explodes during landing

SpaceX performed the first high-altitude test flight of a prototype of its Starship launch vehicle Dec. 9, with the vehicle…

4 years ago

Chinese Chang’e-5 spacecraft smashes into moon after completing mission

The Chang’e-5 ascent vehicle which carried precious samples into lunar orbit was commanded to crash into the moon Dec. 7…

4 years ago

Virgin Galactic prepares for its first spaceflight from New Mexico

Virgin Galactic announced Dec. 1 that is had rescheduled a powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane for a…

4 years ago

Chang’e-5 spacecraft Lands on the Moon

The lander-ascender combination of China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe has successfully landed on the Mons Rumker area of the huge volcanic…

4 years ago