Despite developing Parkinson’s disease, one of Virgin Galactic’s first customers boarded the company’s VSS Unity spaceship for a suborbital ride.

Using inputs from the fledging HAPS industry, Frontex believes HAPS would be useful for Earth observation.

Lunar Vertex (LVx) is a joint lander and rover payload combination that will land at Reiner Gamma on the lunar nearside.

Two Russian cosmonauts installed three orbital debris shields to the exterior of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment Rassvet.

The mission date is to be announced at a later date, and the name of the astronaut awaits approval by NASA and the other ISS partners.

NASA has awarded Advanced Space two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts.

The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.