NASA’s Health Research Program is eager to learn more about astronaut health on long-duration space missions by enlarging the number of subjects and improving data collection protocols.

SpaceX’s 17th NASA-contracted cargo mission to the International Space Station departed the six-person orbiting science laboratory at midday June 3.

NASA appears committed to sustaining a presence in LEO aboard the International Space Station or as a paying customer aboard follow-on commercial platforms.

Private Chinese space launcher builder Landspace has tested a complete methane-burning space launch main engine, laying the groundwork for a move to higher thrust.

NASA on May 16 hired 11 companies for studies and prototypes of descent modules, orbit-transfer stages and refueling capabilities.

Experts from the German Aerospace Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have not given up on fully deploying the Mars InSight lander’s subsurface thermal probe.

SpaceX has packed 60 Starlink satellites into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket for a trial operational run of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite network.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled a full-scale mockup of a lunar lander capable of soft-landing up to 6.5 metric tons on the surface of the Moon.