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The year 2021 will see several exciting space events take place. Here is a brief overview of just some of the highlights that are scheduled for the year.   February will be the month of [...]

On December 1, 2020 at 10:11 a.m. Eastern time, the China National Space Administration’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft successfully landed near [...]

On Sunday, November 15th, the Crew Dragon Capsule Resilience lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a crew of four headed to the [...]

On November 2, 2020 NASA celebrated 20 years of occupancy of the International Space Station. The first crew to live on the station arrived on November 2, 2000. The Expedition 1 crew [...]

On October 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed a major milestone in its mission by using its robotic arm to collect samples from Asteroid Bennu. [...]

The closest planet to the Earth, Venus, has been in the news recently with the discovery of phosphine gas in its atmosphere. An international team of astronomers has presented [...]

On May 7, 1992, the Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on its first flight into space. The mission was STS-49, and it would turn out to be a record-breaking [...]

As NASA celebrates the recent launch of the Perseverance Mars Rover, let’s take a look back at the very first successful NASA spacecraft landing on Mars. It happened during the United [...]

While the International Space Station has been an ongoing project for NASA for over 20 years, it is not the first space station that the United States was involved with. After the final Apollo [...]

In May 1972, an agreement was reached between the United States and the Soviet Union that would set the stage for an historic meeting in space. At the height of the cold war, President Richard M. [...]