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“We're Really on a Different Trajectory”: How NASA’s Artemis Missions Are Preparing Humans for Mars

NASA is using the Artemis lunar program to develop techniques, operations and living systems needed for human missions to Mars, aiming to learn how to live away from Earth and validate long‑duration habitation strategies in cislunar space as a bridge to deep‑space exploration.

2025-09-16T15:03:08.662079-07:00

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Crew-10 Astronauts Splash Down in Pacific After Five-Month ISS Rotation

2025-08-09T10:55:51.181690-07:00

New York Times

NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos Crew-11 Set for ISS Launch Aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour

2025-07-30T21:09:22.895747-07:00

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Axiom-4 Crew Dragon Undocks, Returns Shubhanshu Shukla After Completing Seven Microgravity Experiments

2025-07-13T21:01:44.457201-07:00

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“We're Really on a Different Trajectory”: How NASA’s Artemis Missions Are Preparing Humans for Mars NASA is using the Artemis lunar program to develop techniques, operations and living systems needed for human missions to Mars, aiming to learn how to live away from Earth and validate long‑duration habitation strategies in cislunar space as a bridge to deep‑space exploration.

2025-09-16T15:03:08.662079-07:00

“We're Really on a Different Trajectory”: How NASA’s Artemis Missions Are Preparing Humans for Mars

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Barbie Honors Ellen Ochoa, First Hispanic Woman in Space, With New Doll Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman to fly in space and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has been inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, has been honored with a new Barbie doll, joining a small group of astronauts immortalized as toys.

2025-09-15T14:43:02.615405-07:00

Barbie Honors Ellen Ochoa, First Hispanic Woman in Space, With New Doll

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Astronaut Brews Purple Kefir on ISS to Test Vitamin‑Rich Fermented Food for Exploration An astronaut aboard the International Space Station prepared a purple kefir fermented‑milk drink as part of an experiment to evaluate vitamin‑rich fermented foods in microgravity. The onboard test aims to assess feasibility of producing nutrient‑dense, shelf‑stable food items during long‑duration space missions.

2025-09-12T18:33:02.260812-07:00

Astronaut Brews Purple Kefir on ISS to Test Vitamin‑Rich Fermented Food for Exploration

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Chris Hadfield’s space‑race novel Final Orbit tops sci‑fi book roundup Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s new novel Final Orbit — a space‑race thriller — tops our latest science‑fiction book roundup. The list also highlights new titles including As the Earth Dreams, Lucky Day and Before Superman, offering a mix of space‑focused and broader speculative fiction.

2025-09-07T04:01:01.231074-07:00

Chris Hadfield’s space‑race novel Final Orbit tops sci‑fi book roundup

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Axiom to use the ISS as foundation for a commercial 'Axiom Station' Axiom Space will repurpose modules of the International Space Station as the foundation for its commercial Axiom Station, marking a formal step toward a privately operated successor to NASA's ISS. The plan seeks to transition existing on-orbit infrastructure into the first modules of a standalone commercial outpost.

2025-09-04T08:11:17.249671-07:00

Axiom to use the ISS as foundation for a commercial 'Axiom Station'

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Norway’s Nåva Space launches first spacesuit prototype as it targets European commercial market Norwegian startup Nåva Space has unveiled its first spacesuit prototype, a step toward becoming Europe’s first supplier of commercially available modern spacesuits. The milestone represents initial hardware validation as the company seeks contracts from commercial and government human-spaceflight programs.

2025-09-03T20:57:57.546410-07:00

Norway’s Nåva Space launches first spacesuit prototype as it targets European commercial market

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India’s first astronaut to visit the ISS returns to Lucknow, greeted by celebratory crowds India’s first astronaut to visit the International Space Station returned to Lucknow early this morning, landing around 7:30 and greeted by celebratory crowds. The returning flier said he’d taken roughly 2,000 selfies since arriving—a high-profile homecoming that spotlights India’s expanding human-spaceflight engagement.

2025-09-02T03:05:15.146382-07:00

India’s first astronaut to visit the ISS returns to Lucknow, greeted by celebratory crowds

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Gemini and Mercury Remastered: Andy Saunders restores golden‑era images of early US crewed spaceflight A new book, Gemini and Mercury Remastered by Andy Saunders, presents extensively restored photographs from the Mercury and Gemini programmes, exposing technical detail and operational scenes from the dawn of American crewed spaceflight and reframing archival imagery for contemporary audiences.

2025-08-28T08:14:46.760827-07:00

Gemini and Mercury Remastered: Andy Saunders restores golden‑era images of early US crewed spaceflight

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