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SpaceX sends two NASA astronauts to ISS in historic mission
Elon Musk's SpaceX now becomes the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit
Pakistan to select candidates next year for first space mission in 2022
“This will be the biggest space event of our history,” Science and Technology Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said in a tweet.
US VP Mike Pence confident American women will land on moon
The United States is planning another space mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence said on Monday.
NASA's 1st female astronaut candidate, Jerrie Cobb, dies at 88
In 1961, Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut testing.
Virgin Galactic's first test passenger gets commercial astronaut wings
During The 90-minute flight passengers will be able to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the Earth’s curvature.
Lack of well fitting suits makes NASA scrap all-women spacewalk
The US space agency NASA scrapped on Monday a planned historic spacewalk by two women astronauts, citing a lack of available spacesuits.
For first time in decades, astronaut quits NASA training
A NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency has said.
Astronaut performs with Kraftewerk from space
Video posted shows German astronaut Alexander Gerst “dropping in” for a live performance from the ISS.
NASA astronauts install high-def cameras during spacewalk
The new high-definition video cameras are designed to help to visit commercial spaceships dock there in the coming years.
First person on Mars should be a woman, says NASA's chief astronaut trainer
According to Allison McIntyre, a senior NASA engineer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a dozen men have already walked on the moon.