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In this undated photo provided by NASA on Tuesday, 1 March, 2016, astronaut Scott Kelly looks out the cupola of the International Space Station. Photo: AP/UNB

ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit

The first expedition crew — NASA’s Bill Shepherd and Russia’s Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko — blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on 31 October, 2000

The Zhuque-2 carrier rocket, a methane-liquid oxygen rocket by Chinese company LandSpace, takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China July 12, 2023. cnsphoto via REUTERS

China beats rivals to successfully launch first methane-liquid rocket

The four Inspiration4 astronauts wave and give thumbs up signs to the camera inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon Resilience as they await launch atop NASA's Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 15, 2021. They are (from left): Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux. (Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX launches world’s first ‘amateur astronaut’ crew to orbit Earth

Representative Image: REUTERS/Joe Skipper

SpaceX to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit