The ‘stranded’ pair of NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, finally returned to Earth on 18 March bringing an end to their extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The venture was supposed to last just eight days but ended up exceeding nine...
Amid the plethora of people at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world, there was undoubtedly one outfit that turned the most heads: that of Axiom’s Artemis spacesuit. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit...
The first commercially funded spacewalk mission, Polaris Dawn, was launched at 0923 GMT on 10 September by a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket. The four private astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule included the mission’s sponsor, billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman....
Boeing confirmed that Starliner, its Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), was safely recovered only – to its eternal embarrassment – minus the crew. Starliner undocked from the ISS at 2204 on 6 September. Using an airbag and...
Conversations over dinner with my in-laws usually revolve around the latest cricket game or the best new dish sampled, but last week space affairs made an unexpected appearance between courses. With wide-eyed disbelief, my husband’s father asked if we had heard about...
On its final voyage, the Virgin Galactic suborbital rocket SpaceShipTwo ‘Unity’ was launched on the Galactic 07 human rocket flight to the edge of space. The carrier aircraft VMS Eve lifted off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at 1428 GMT on 8 June with Unity...
