Category: Space

Crew 11 is expected to splash down off the coast of Southern California at 3:41 a.m. EST, closing out a 167-day stay in space.

Outgoing space station commander Mike Fincke, a member of the returning Crew 11, turned the station over to cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, saying the combined crew had developed deep friendships.

Mike Fincke thanked NASA for making crew health the agency’s top priority.

NASA officials reported Thursday that an unidentified member of Crew 11 was dealing with “a medical situation” that would require the crew to return to Earth sooner than anticipated.

Four crew members aboard the International Space Station will be brought home more than a month early in the coming days as NASA cuts its mission short due to health … Read More

A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station was scrapped because of what NASA called a “medical concern” with an unidentified crew member.

NASA said the unidentified astronaut is ‘stable,” but the agency is considering all options, including a possible early return to Earth for Crew 11

The hydrogen cloud is a remnant of the universe’s early formation, NASA said in a news release.

NASA astronauts took their first drive on the moon 54 years ago. Now, three companies are competing for a NASA contract to build a new lunar rover for use starting … Read More

NASA is gearing up to send four Artemis astronauts on looping test flight around the moon in 2026.