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April 24, 2025

Shenzhou-20 crew arrives at China's Tiangong space station for 6-month stay

A crew of three Chinese taikonauts, Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, have arrived aboard the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft at the Tiangong space station, beginning a six-month stay only six-and-a-half hours after they launched from northwest China.


April 21, 2025

New 'Wall of Honor' lists NASA workers in Alabama who pioneered space

A monument to space program workers now stands where an example of its honorees' towering contributions to NASA history was on display. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama held a ribbon cutting for its new Space Exploration Wall of Honor.


April 19, 2025

NASA's oldest active astronaut lands with ISS crewmates on his 70th birthday

NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same day that he turned 70. Don Pettit touched down aboard Soyuz MS-26 with Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.


April 17, 2025

Neil Armstrong's gold Omega moonwatch sells for record $2.2M at auction

A new record has been set for the most paid at auction for an astronaut's timepiece. The 18-karat gold Omega Speedmaster that was presented to Neil Armstrong four months after he became the first person to walk on the moon sold for $2,187,500 with premium.


April 14, 2025

Popstar Katy Perry and crew's Blue Origin spaceflight souvenirs

A flag that flew to the moon, a cookie from Cookie Monster and the set list for a music tour are now all space artifacts, having briefly left the planet with popstar Katy Perry, TV morning show host Gayle King and four more women.


April 11, 2025

'The Dream is [still] Alive': First IMAX film shot in space at 40 years

James Neihouse had one more thing to share. From inside a tote bag, he pulled out a frame displaying 11 strips of tape, each of which had printed text and handwritten notes from astronauts who filmed the IMAX movie "The Dream is Alive" 40 years ago.


April 10, 2025

Texas Senators: Move space shuttle from Smithsonian to Houston

Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have introduced the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act."


April 8, 2025

New collectible pins celebrate humanity's robotic space explorers

A design studio's plan for a new collectible set seeks to "pin" down the pivotal probes from space exploration history. Chop Shop is seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help produce a series of hard enamel lapel pins.


April 8, 2025

Navy SEAL-doctor-astronaut lifts off with cosmonauts on Soyuz flight to ISS

A Navy SEAL, medical doctor and NASA astronaut lifted off for an eight-month stay on the International Space Station and that was just one of the three crewmates on Soyuz MS-27. Jonny Kim, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky launched together.


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