International Space Station (ISS)

International Space Station (ISS)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off on NASA's Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronauts from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. on 13 February 2026. Photo: Steve Nesius/Reuters

SpaceX launches 12th long-duration crew to International Space Station

A live NASA-SpaceX webcast showed the 25-story-tall vehicle rising from the launch tower as its nine Merlin engines roared to life, gulping 700,000 gallons of fuel per second.

JAXA said the HTV-X1 spacecraft lifted off smoothly atop the No. 7 H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Photo: UNB/AP

Japan successfully launches new cargo spacecraft to supply ISS

The Axiom-4 crew, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of India, Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu of Hungary, Commander Peggy Whitson of the US, and Mission Specialist Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, react as they greet their family members before their mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, June 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius/File Photo

Astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary depart space station for return flight

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Axiom-4 crew of four astronauts lifts off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, June 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius

Astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary launched on first space station mission

NASA astronaut Don Pettit..Photo: NASA

NASA's oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

After leaving the International Space Station (ISS), Soyuz MS-26 space capsule commander, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, holds a hard boiled egg given to him for Easter outside the capsule after he, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner landed in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan April 20, 2025, in this still image taken from video. Photo: Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth: Roscosmos

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, undocks from the ISS to begin a journey to return to Earth March 18, 2025 in this still image taken from video. Photo: NASA/Handout via REUTERS

NASA astronauts head home on SpaceX capsule after drawn-out space station stay

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, and Donald Pettit unbox Thanksgiving meals, from the International Space Station (ISS), in this screen grab taken from a handout video, released on November 26, 2024. Photo: NASA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

'Butch and Suni' astronauts prepare for Tuesday homecoming after nine-month mission

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, and Donald Pettit unbox Thanksgiving meals, from the International Space Station (ISS), in this screen grab taken from a handout video, released on November 26, 2024. Photo: NASA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Astronaut crew docks with space station to replace 'Butch and Suni'

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off, carrying NASA's Crew-10 astronauts to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on 14 March 2025. Photo: Reuters

Stuck NASA astronauts one step closer to home after SpaceX crew-swap launch

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Why Sunita Williams will remain in space till Feb 2025 despite SpaceX Dragon docking at ISS

Crew member of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson smiles after landing in the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan September 23, 2024. Photo: Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

Russian Soyuz brings crew of three back from International Space Station

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, April 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Without astronauts, Boeing's Starliner returns to Earth