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November 22, 2025

Launch your cares away, Fraggles coming to NASA for 'Space-y' play

Uncle Traveling Matt is finally going to discover that "Outer Space" is more than just the human world above Fraggle Rock. Together with nephew Gobo and friend Red, the Fraggles are set to come face-to-face with NASA's real-life space explorers.

November 19, 2025

Russia's Soyuz made by Estes into highly-detailed flying model rocket

The world's most flown rocket is about to see its flight rate increase, albeit at a small scale. Russia's Soyuz has been made into a detailed collector's model capable of flight. Released by Estes, the Pro Series II Soyuz assembles into a 1:48 display.


November 18, 2025

Rocket Lab Electron among first artifacts installed in CA Science Center gallery

It took the California Science Center more than three years to erect its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, including stacking NASA's space shuttle Endeavour for its launch pad-like display. Now the big work begins.


November 14, 2025

China's Shenzhou 20 taikonauts land after debris hit causes capsule swap

China's fifth space station crew is safely home on Earth, despite their spacecraft still being docked to the orbiting Tiangong outpost. Shenzhou 20 taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie landed on board the Shenzhou 21 descent module.


November 9, 2025

Astronauts design t-shirts for UNIQLO 'Peace For All' charity sale

A professional football player-turned-NASA astronaut-turned author and advocate for science education has taken yet another turn: designing t-shirts to promote world peace. Leland Melvin has collaborated with two commercial astronauts and UNIQLO.
November 18, 2025

Project Inspiration: Groundbreaking marks display site for original mock space shuttle

An astronaut led a ground breaking in Downey, California, beginning to clear the way for a new education complex and permanent home for the original full-scale "inspiration" for NASA's winged space shuttle orbiters.


November 14, 2025

Little Joe (II), big project: Apollo abort test rocket being restored at NM museum

A rare surviving example of a NASA rocket that was used to test the first spacecraft to fly astronauts to the moon is being restored 60 years after its last use. A Little Joe II is being refurbished at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.


November 13, 2025

NASA Mars ESCAPADE twin spacecraft (with kiwis) launch on New Glenn rocket

The first multi-spacecraft science mission to launch to Mars is on its way and catching a ride on the twin probes are the first kiwis to fly to the Red Planet. NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission has lifted off.


November 7, 2025

Astronaut Rick Hauck, who led first flight after shuttle Challenger tragedy, dies at 84

Former NASA astronaut Rick Hauck, who flew on three history-making space shuttle missions, including the "return to flight" following the Challenger tragedy in 1986, has died. He was 84. He orbited Earth 288 times in 18 days, 3 hours and 8 minutes.

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November 13, 2025
BBC News

The Moonwalkers with Tom Hanks comes to Manchester


An immersive multimedia show exploring moon landings of the past and and those planned for the future begins in Manchester next month.

November 6, 2025
Deadline

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Joins Andrea Iervolino's Effort To Film Romantic Drama 'I See You' In Space


Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has joined forces with Italian producer Andrea Iervolino (Ferrari) and his Space11 Corp banner for the upcoming "romantic space drama" I See You, which is aiming to be the first western movie to send a filmmaker into orbit to capture a scene.

November 1, 2025
TIME Magazine

The Forgotten Story of NASA's Most Life-Threatening Spacewalk


The last thing Tom Stafford wanted to do was cut Gene Cernan loose in space. Stafford liked Cernan; he had trained hard with Cernan. For more than a year, the two of them had worked together to get ready for their three-day flight of Gemini 9, and now, in early June 1966, they were actually aloft. But the business of cutting Cernan loose was all at once a very real possibility.

October 31, 2025
Xinhau

China launches Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship


China launched the Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship on Friday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station on a six-month mission.

October 24, 2025
The New York Times

How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth


The darkness we expected. What we had underestimated was the silence: the quiet of the vacuum, disturbed only by our breath and the radio in our ears.
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