•Crescent Earth setting along the Moon’s limb, as seen from the Orion spacecraft, yesterday National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, today released a historic image of Earth dipping below the lunar horizon, more than 57 years after an iconic “Earthrise” image was captured by an Apollo 8 astronaut. Members of the Artemis II crew ca...
•The Artemis II crewed lunar mission lifts off from Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1, 2026 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, gave the four Artemis astronauts circling Earth the green light yesterday to head for the Moon and carry out the first crewed lunar flyby in […]
A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth tomorrow evening, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craf...
•Jared Isaacman US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, as the next head of NASA. The nod raises questions about potential conflicts of interest, given Isaacman’s financial ties to SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who is set to...

