A month-long countdown to the launch of China’s first astronaut began on Monday, according to reports Unnamed space program officials told the Hong Kong newspaperWen Wei Pothat the historic flight would take place shortly after the week-long celebrations that mark the anniversary of communist ru...
The six-month mission, dubbed Crew-1, follows the signing of the Human Rating Certification Plan and a Flight Readiness Review. It is the first NASA-certified crew spacecraft to have regular flights. Over the past few years, NASA has conducted ground tests, simulations, uncrewed flight tests,...
A milestone in human history was reached on Oct. 15, 2003 when China became the third nation to independently launch an astronaut into Earth orbit atop its own Long March 2F rocket. Here is a collection of stories published bySPACE.comcovering the flight. The story links are presented in re...
Watch SpaceX Live flight mission to International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex. This mission will mark the first launch of astronauts on American Falcon 9 rocket integrated with Dragon Space Shuttle from American soil since the last space shuttle mission in 2011 #LaunchAmeri...
which made its first flight in 1903, was the first crewed, powered, heavier-than-air and (to some degree) controlled flying machine. It was hard to imagine back then that a few wobbly flights would lead to an international aviation industry, not to mention the first human spaceflight just ...
The quartet are essentially repeating the 1968 mission carried out by Apollo 8, which was the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. 这个机组基本是重复1968年阿波罗8号的任务,阿波罗八号是人类首次飞往月球。 Its crew took the famous "Earthrise" picture that showed our home planet emerging from...
The Ax-4 mission will “realize the return” to human spaceflight for India, Poland, and Hungary, with each nation’s first government-sponsored flight in more than 40 years. While Ax-4 marks these countries' second human spaceflight mission in history, it will be the first time all three...
"I don't think it has necessarily anything to do with Boeing and a flight going off," he said. "They're all vitally important. This is human spaceflight. That adage you've heard since Apollo 13, failure is not an option? That has nothing specifically to do with Boeing...
"We have been reliant on Russia to ferry astronauts into space since 2011, and this moment puts us back on track with grander ambitions for human space flight ahead of us," Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu told CNBC after the launch. ...
"My desire in human spaceflight is to move the needle," Isaacman said in an interview with CBS News. "It is not without risk, and you're taking that risk because you want to advance the ball forward, things that help SpaceX open up this frontier for everyone, for lots of people." ...