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ISS astronauts take cover from radiation as solar storms spark auroras across the planet
Out of an "abundance of caution," the station's three Russian cosmonauts were instructed to spend a night in the ISS laboratory module.
Blue Origin is targeting an afternoon launch window from 2:45 p.m. to 5:11 p.m., a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory indicates. The massive 321-foot New Glenn will rumble into flight from Launch Complex 36 — a vantage point readily visible to spectators along the Cape Canaveral-Cocoa Beach oceanfront.
China's Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China,
As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.
The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 capsule, which transported a crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space station in April 2025.
A new "exosuit," tested during a two-week space analog mission last month in Australia run by the Austrian Space Forum, hopes to change that. The garment, which is meant to be worn under a spacesuit, features artificial muscles to make it easier to move around while walking, either on the moon or Mars.
Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space has some of the city's best astronomy programming. The hall ticket is included with general admission ($25 per person), and if you're a New York resident, you can pay what you wish to get in.
China’s Shenzhou-21 space rocket and its crew including the youngest member of its astronaut corps blasted off on Friday atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China,