The Haolong space shuttle is being developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute under the state-owned ...

While we hear a lot about the International Space Station (ISS), it's not the only science laboratory orbiting our planet.

"None of our spacesuits are spring chickens, as we would say, and so we will expect to see some hardware issues with repeated ...

When NASA retired the Space Shuttle program, the agency elected to contract with private companies to take astronauts to the ISS. NASA contracted with SpaceX, a relatively new company at the time, for ...

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The International Space Station - a blazing symbol of humanity’s destiny to move out across the cosmos - must be saved from ...

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...

Dragon’s success eliminates US reliance on Russia for operation of the space station, should that partnership dissolve.

A silicon-carbide-based thermal protection system developed by ORNL and Sierra Space researchers will be used on the Sierra ...

Between the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 and the beginning of Dragon’s crewed missions, the only way for NASA astronauts to launch to the ISS was aboard Russian spacecraft.