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Astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao attend a press conference before the Shenzhou-16 spaceflight mission to China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China 29 May, 2023. China Daily via REUTERS

China to send first civilian into space on Tuesday

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission. Photo: Collected

Who are the Nasa astronauts going to the moon?

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90

Photo: Collected

China astronauts reach Tiangong space station

The logo of the European Space Agency (ESA) is seen during the ESA Council at Ministerial level (CM22) at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris, France, November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Europe names world's first disabled astronaut

The International Space Station (ISS) is photographed by Expedition 66 crew member Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov from the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, in this image released April 20, 2022. Pyotr Dubrov/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

Saudi Arabia buys pair of SpaceX astronaut seats from Axioms

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of ecommerce company Amazon.com Inc, sits with the crew of a scheduled flight before they board Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas, US on 11 December, 2021. Blue Origin/Handout via REUTERS.

Daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard soars to space aboard Blue Origin rocket

Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a schoolgirl when her father first streaked into space, is one of six individuals due for liftoff at 8:45 a.m. Central time (1445 GMT) from Blue Origin's launch site outside the rural west Texas town of Van Horn.(AFP)

Daughter of first American astronaut to launch on Blue Origin flight

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer of Germany, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron wave while departing the crew quarters for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space

Latest astronaut crew of 4 welcomed aboard International Space Station

FILE PHOTO: Virgin Galactic's passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his crew, descends after reaching the edge of space above Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, U.S., July 11, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Virgin Galactic has sold 100 more space tickets

Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping, member of the second crew for China's new space station, salutes at a briefing the day before launch at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China, on Oct 14, 2021. Photo :AFP

Astronaut becomes first Chinese woman to spacewalk

Indian American astronaut Sirisha Bandla. Picture: India Today

Family of Indian-American astronaut on Virgin Galactic crew 'happy and overwhelmed'

Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) Josef Aschbacher gestures as he talks during an interview with Reuters in Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang

'Space is for everyone': Europe's Space Agency to hire first disabled astronaut