“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used…
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Commercial spaceflight companies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are now offering exclusive opportunities for celebrities and civilians to…
Three astronauts on China’s new space station have just performed the country’s first space walk and are busy configuring the module for future…
China plans to send its first crewed missions to Mars by 2033, as part of a series of missions intended…
We keep on saying this but the point keeps being driven home: China has its eye on space in a…
This year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to launch the first private space mission into orbit with no professional astronauts. Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman,…
The Crew Dragon spacecraft, produced by private company SpaceX, is scheduled to return from the International Space Station (ISS) and splash…
Human spaceflight is incredibly difficult and expensive; the rockets must be reliable and the vehicle must be built with expensive life support systems and a certain level of redundancy. To date, only three countries – Russia, the United States and China – have achieved this feat.