SpaceX plans to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by crypto entrepreneur Chun Wang on a mission to orbit Earth via ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the north and south ...

Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches ...

The custom of flying zero-g indicators began in the former Soviet Union with the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, in 1961. The tradition migrated to the United States ...

Ill fated flight On the day of the launch, Yuri Gagarin, who was the backup pilot ... Komarov was launched successfully into space, but soon encountered significant technical issues.

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

Go SpaceX. Go SPHEREx, Go PUNCH. SPHEREx and PUNCH on their way to map out our universe like never before and revolutionize space weather forecasting. SPHEREx is drifting away from Falcon 9’s ...

The Gateway space station will be humanity’s first space station around the Moon as a vital component of the Artemis missions to return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt’s first ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space. The New York Times first reported the change becoming official ...