Skip to content

Esoteric news

Science and reality

Category: Human Spaceflight

Posted on April 9, 2025

China and Pakistan agree to fly 1st foreign astronaut to Chinese space station

For the first time, the Chinese space program will train a Pakistani astronaut, who will also be the first foreign astronaut to visit China's space station.
Posted on April 4, 2025

Astronaut’s new NASA portrait is a blast from the past: Space photo of the day

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.
Posted on April 1, 2025

‘I’d get on in a heartbeat’: Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.
Posted on April 1, 2025April 1, 2025

Watch chilling 1st views of Earth’s poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)

The first images of Earth's poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views are breathtaking.
Posted on March 31, 2025

Mission Control ‘members only’: NASA flight directors don new jacket

NASA's flight directors have taken a page from the astronauts they support, if not also the Masters, Hells Angels and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club. There is now a flight director's jacket.
Posted on March 28, 2025

Meet the astronauts of SpaceX’s Fram2 mission, the 1st to fly over Earth’s poles

The crew of SpaceX's pioneering Fram2 mission includes a polar explorer, a marine technology scientist, a filmmaker and a bitcoin magnate.
Posted on March 18, 2025

Private Starlab space station moves into ‘full-scale development’ ahead of 2028 launch

The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA.
Posted on March 15, 2025

SpaceX Crew-10 folds traits, hopes into origami crane zero-g indicator

What do you get when you fold together the contributions of four space station-bound astronauts from the U.S., Japan and Russia? A zero-gravity indicator in the form of a crocheted origami crane.
Posted on March 14, 2025

Tiangong astronauts experiment with AI robot and more to kick off busy year for Chinese human spaceflight (video)

China is planning to send two new crews to its Tiangong space station in another busy year of human spaceflight.
Posted on March 12, 2025

Meet the SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts launching to the ISS on March 12

SpaceX's Crew-10 mission will send two NASA astronauts, a Japanese spaceflyer and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station.

Posts navigation

Previous page Page 1 … Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 … Page 15 Next page
Proudly powered by WordPress