Thomas Jenkins offers insights into the logistics past and present of manned spaceflight, in the wake of recent transportation difficulties at the International Space Station.

China's last similar test was in 1998 for the Shenzhou manned spacecraft. The test simulated a zero-altitude escape flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft in the event of a launch pad malfunction of ...

China successfully conducted an escape flight test on its new-generation manned spacecraft Mengzhou at zero altitude on Tuesday, taking an important step forward in its manned lunar exploration ...

China successfully carried out a zero-altitude escape flight test of its new Mengzhou manned spacecraft on Tuesday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, marking the first such ...

SINGAPORE—The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) has completed the first zero-altitude escape flight test of its next-generation Mengzhou crewed spacecraft, marking a key milestone in ...

Teams responsible for preparing and launching Artemis II at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are set to begin a series of integrated tests.

The photographs purportedly showing Williams after her return to Earth were taken in June 2024, before her space mission. In mid-March 2025, after NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams's ...

The photographs purportedly showing Williams after her return to Earth were taken in June 2024, before her space mission. On X, users posted photographs of Williams, who was on the ISS for nine ...

The film details the operations and contributions of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas, highlighting its pivotal role in achieving the historic moon landing in July 1969. It ...

Finally, on Jan. 17 workers topped off the rocket with a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft while engineers continued testing the flight article in the MSOB. The ASTP Command Module arrives in KSC’s Manned ...

In the early hours of November 4, in Korla, Bayingolin Prefecture, Xinjiang, the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou 18 manned spacecraft successfully landed at the Dongfeng Landing Site. Residents ...

Fresh on the heels of a massive funding round, Impulse Space has landed a $34.5 million contract from the Space Force for two ultra-mobile spacecraft missions. Under the Space Force’s Tactically ...