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The first time a docking between two crewed spacecrafts occurred on January 16, 1969, when the Soyuz 4 and 5 spacecrafts docked.

2020 has been an unprecedented year, but who knew we would get some of the most exciting space news in such a tumultuous year?

Out past the asteroid belt of the Solar System lives Jupiter, and recently it has been joined by the space probe Juno, courtesy of NASA.

Apollo 8 was a mission of many firsts. The first crewed spacecraft was to leave low-Earth orbit, the first crewed mission to reach and orbit the Moon, and return home safely, a fantastic...

It has been nearly 50 years since travel outside of low-Earth orbit has seemed possible, but now, with the impending Artemis Deep Space Outpost, and NASA's announcement of the Artemis crew, it could...

The Gemini 7 mission was full of important milestones; the first crewed space rendezvous, the first long-duration flight, the first flight astronauts were allowed to take off their spacesuits, and it...

We have always looked out to the universe in wonder, imagining if there could be, or could have ever been, life on other planets. The most recent answers come from a car-sized rover on the surface of...

NASA's Space Shuttle program was a truly groundbreaking step in sustainable space travel. STS-80 was one of many space flights but was also record-breaking and incredibly eyeopening in terms of...

Apollo 12 took a step in closing the gap between Earth and the world beyond us. During the 10 day mission, Apollo 12 proved that human space travel was not a one-off, but was a symbol of what was to...

Spirit and Opportunity were launched in 2003, making their way to Mars by 2004, where they both successfully landed on the surface. Their purpose was to explore Mars and search for signs of past...

NASA and ESA have come to an agreement on the collaboration for the Artemis Gateway earlier this week!

Earlier this week, the OSIRIS-REx touched down on and collected samples from asteroid Bennu. If the spacecraft returns as scheduled in 2023, it will be the first to return samples from an asteroid to...

As we get closer to celebrating 20 years of the ISS being operational, it's time to look back on what lead up to this point and the future of travel to the ISS.

Mercury Atlas 8 (MA-8, also Sigma 7), the third manned orbital flight of the Mercury program, launched on October 3, 1962.

The Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. They have been headed, since 1977, directly into the vast unknown of space, far beyond the reaches of what we have ever considered...

It seems to be human nature that we strive to answer the unanswerable about the universe. For thousands of years, people have been looking up to the sky, begging for connection — to higher powers,...

45 years ago, the Viking landers made their way toward Mars, and 44 years ago this week, the Viking 2 landed on the surface of Mars! The findings from the Viking mission are responsible for...

In February 2021, alongside our flight partner, we will be launching a payload up to the International Space Station, where it will orbit outside of the ISS for six months and will be exposed to...