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NASA’s commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said earlier this week that the space agency remains committed to having two competing U.S. companies transporting astronauts. The goal is for SpaceX and Boeing to take turns launching crews — one a year per company — until the space station is abandoned in 2030 right before its fiery ...
Astronauts have lived onboard the space station for over a year. Just last year, Frank Rubio returned from a stay that lasted over a year when debris stuck the Soyuz spacecraft he traveled to the ...
The space agency said the additional time at the space station was for the astronauts to assist with a spacewalk and to allow engineers more time to complete system checkouts of Starliner. June 14 ...
Sergei Krikalev with James H. Newman on the left during STS-88. Krikalev flew on STS-88 Endeavour (4–15 December 1998), the first International Space Station assembly mission. During the 12-day mission the Unity module was mated with Zarya module. Two crew members performed three space walks to connect umbilicals and attach tools and hardware ...
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore, wearing Boeing spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 5, 2024.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The two NASA astronauts left behind at the International Space Station following the return of Boeing's troubled capsule are Navy test pilots who have ridden out long missions before. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are now full-time station crew members along with the seven others on board.
Julius Epstein wrote several papers on "Soviet failures in Space", including allegations of lost cosmonauts, which were read into the Congressional Record in 1965 [31] and 1971. [ 32 ] In 1993, Sun , a U.S. supermarket tabloid , ran a story recounting multiple cosmonaut deaths and ensuing body recovery missions between 1968 and 1988.
[1] [2] Astronauts have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut fatalities during spaceflight-related activities. As of 2025, there have been over 188 fatalities in incidents regarding spaceflight.