Sophie Adenot Completes Eight Months Aboard the Space Station
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot returned to Earth on October 8, 2026, completing her first long-duration mission to the International Space Stat…
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Crew-12 Splashes Down as Starship Eyes Flight 15
NASA's Crew-12 mission concluded on October 8 with a Pacific Ocean splashdown off California, returning four astronauts safely to Earth. Mea…
Crew-12 Splashes Down After 237 Days Aboard the Space Station
NASA's Crew-12 mission came to a close on October 8, 2026, as the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom splashed down off the California coast after 23…
Splashdown and first light: two milestones mark October 8 in space
On October 8, 2026, two distinct but equally significant events unfolded: the successful return of the four-person Crew-12 mission aboard a …
Themis Completes Second Wet Dress Rehearsal in Swedish Arctic
Europe's reusable launch vehicle ambitions moved a step closer to reality as Themis completed a second wet dress rehearsal at Sweden's Esran…
SDA satellites, South Korea, China: a packed week in orbit
A Falcon 9 carrying 21 military data-relay satellites lifted off from Vandenberg this week, marking the fourth flight for the SDA's warfight…
SpaceX caps a busy October with crew and defense launches
Within days of each other, SpaceX launched a four-person crew to the International Space Station and prepared to deploy 21 data-transport sa…
Falcon Heavy Takes On Its First NRO Spy Satellite Mission
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is flying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office for the very first time. The NROL-97 mission lif…
Crew-13 Docks at ISS in Record Time as Crew-12 Heads Home
On October 1, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying four astronauts to the ISS in what became the quickest Dragon …
NASA Lays the Digital Groundwork for Long-Term Lunar Operations
NASA has awarded two separate contracts targeting the backbone of future space operations: a 5G communications system for the lunar surface …
Moon bases, solar winds, and space diplomacy converge
Three new science investigations for NASA's Moon Base program, a joint European-Chinese mission now studying Earth's response to solar wind,…
Boeing Starliner Charts Course for Regular ISS Crew Rotations
After years of setbacks and technical scrutiny, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is being repositioned as an active part of NASA's crew transpo…
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