Astronauts

This year promises to be an exciting one for space. For the first time in more than 54 years, astronauts are preparing to return to the Moon. That will also happen this year, although they will not yet set foot on its surface. Artemis…

It’s no Spot from Boston Dynamics, but the astronauts that NASA wants to send to the moon will get a kind of robotic pet. It is a kind of handcart that can be driven over rough lunar terrain. Working with a robot It is a first: the first…

It has been a bit quiet lately when it comes to space initiatives. And the missions that are there are not always from a slate roof. Today it is exactly 56 years ago that humanity set foot on the moon for the first time. Neil Armstrong…

NASA has decided that Blue Origin may build the Artemis V lunar lander. That rocket must make a manned flight in 2029. This contract is worth an amount of EUR 3.14 billion.For the manned mission, a 'demonstration mission' without crew…

Vast and SpaceX want to launch the Haven-1 space station in August 2025 at the earliest. If successful, it will likely become the first commercial space station. This station should be used primarily for scientific and philanthropic…

Developer The Astronauts, known for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, wants to release its next game in Early Access in the fourth quarter of this year. That will happen on the Epic Games Store, but later the game will come to other…

The American space agency NASA has given three companies a total of $415.6 million to develop the successors to ISS. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, among others, will receive funding from NASA for an ISS successor.Of the three companies,…

The space debris that astronauts had to shelter from this week was caused by a Russian anti-satellite mission. Russia blew up one of its old satellites, but that set off a cloud of space debris that potentially endangered the ISS.The US…

NASA has postponed the deadline for its Artemis III moon mission to 'no earlier than' 2025. The mission was previously scheduled for 2024. According to the space agency, the postponement is due to lawsuits between NASA, SpaceX and Blue…

Wang Yaping is the first female Chinese taikonaut to take a spacewalk. The mission lasted six hours, during which Wang and her male colleague Zhai Zhigang prepared to expand the Chinese space station Tiangong.Wang, 41, was sent into space…