Human spaceflight has entered a phase where one company effectively controls the only operational ride to orbit for professional crews and most private passengers. SpaceX has turned what was once a ...

The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent ...

Abstract: The renewed global interest in lunar exploration, rapid expansion of the commercial space sector, and national investments in crewed missions have created one of the most active eras in ...

Human spaceflight remains hard, despite progress in "lessons learned." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Site 31 pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan recently, carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher ...

China’s Shenzhou-20 capsule has completed its mission, safely landing in Inner Mongolia on January 19, 2026, after spending 270 days in orbit. The mission, described by CGTN as one of the most ...