Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is launching a new effort to streamline commercial space licensing, allowing innovation to hit the industry with greater ease.
China launched three astronauts to its Tiangong space station Sunday night aboard the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft, kicking off the country's first year-long crewed space mission as Beijing presses forward toward a crewed lunar landing by 2030, the Associated Press reports.
NASA is set to launch the Artemis II mission on Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first crewed flight to travel around the Moon in more than 50 years.
Axiom Mission 4 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, marking the first time astronauts from India, Poland, and Hungary have traveled to space in over four decades. The private mission, assembled by Axiom Space and launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carries crew members representing their nations on a two-week journey to the International Space Station (ISS).
A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed its mission to Venus over five decades ago has finally returned to Earth. Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, reentered Earth’s atmosphere Saturday after 53 years in orbit.
The U.S. Space Force released a framework for "space warfighting" that outlines its vision for "achieving and maintaining space superiority while ensuring the long-term safety and sustainability of the space domain," the Space Force said.
