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More efficient than the ISS? A tour of China's Tiangong space station

Given multi-fold advances in technology, the Tiangong is likely to be more efficient than the ISS in many respects. This was evident in the crew transfer

China to launch manned mission with three astronauts for its space station

The station will rival the ageing International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth from ISS in a rare night splashdown

Saturday night's undocking left seven people at the space station, four of whom arrived a week ago via SpaceX

NASA set to launch SpaceX Crew-2 from International Space Station on Apr 22

US space agency NASA is set to launch SpaceX Crew Dragon second flight to the International Space Station on April 22, it said

NASA astronauts conduct fifth spacewalk of 2021 for technical maintenance

US astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins have now returned to the International Space Station (ISS) after completing a spacewalk for technical and maintenance tasks, NASA said

ISS launch honors ''Hidden Figures'' mathematician Katherine Johnson

Northrop Grumman''s Cygnus capsule - dubbed the S.S. Katherine Johnson - should reach the International Space Station on Monday following its launch from Virginia''s eastern shore

NASA in talks with US space startup to secure 1 Soyuz seat

NASA is reportedly in talks with the Texas-based aerospace firm Axiom Space which arranges private astronaut rides

Elon Musk's SpaceX to fly first civilian crew to space later this year

The flight is expected to launch in the fourth quarter, SpaceX and Jared Isaacman said in a statement on Monday

Indo-American Astro to lead mission to Space Station before heading to Moon

Astronaut Raja Chari, who is part of the bold Artemis missions, will be on his maiden space flight before the Moon missions begin

Food for space: Radish adds to hope of human colonies on Mars, Moon

The radish is the latest addition to several plant species grown at the ISS's veggie chamber, a carefully constructed "greenhouse"

SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts closes in on international space station

SpaceX's newly launched capsule with four astronauts closed in Monday on the International Space Station, their new home until spring

Botany, cancer research to widen in space as Resilience lifts off on Sunday

Nasa, SpaceX will begin the commercial crew rotation missions to low Earth orbit as Crew-1 with four astronauts lift off later this month

Russian-US crew launches on fast track to the International Space Station

NASA's Kate Rubins along with Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled Wednesday morning

Crew-1: NASA delays manned SpaceX mission to space station till November

NASA has delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station (ISS)

Cargo spacecraft SS Kalpana Chawla lifts off on resupply mission to ISS

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus, the commercial cargo spacecraft named the SS Kalpana Chawla after astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-born woman to enter space

Scientific research to widen on ISS as SpaceX eyes commercial crew missions

Led by billionaire Elon Musk, SpaceX is all set for its next mission, Crew-1, to send four astronauts to the International Space Station on its reusable Dragon

'Thanks for Flying SpaceX': NASA Astronauts splash down in Gulf of Mexico

"On behalf of the SpaceX and NASA teams, welcome back to planet Earth," Michael Heiman, the SpaceX engineer communicating with the astronauts, said after splashdown

SpaceX Crew Dragon with 2 NASA astronauts successfully undocks from ISS

Endeavour is scheduled to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico as the Demo-2 mission validates SpaceX's crew transportation system - from launch to in-orbit, docking, landing, and recovery operations

SpaceX capsule set to return 2 NASA astronauts from space station

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that carried two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station two months ago was set to depart the orbiting laboratory on Saturday.

US astronauts pack up for rare splashdown from ISS in SpaceX capsule

SpaceX and Nasa plan to bring Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken back Sunday afternoon in the company's Dragon capsule