Spacecraft

The first time the 30-meter long Long March 5B was launched, it nearly landed on US soil.

"The goal has now been set and the development of a multi-use civilian complex with an orbital plane is in full swing," Olga Sokolova was quoted as saying in comments posted on Molniya's website.

As Earth's orbit gets dangerously polluted, one space start-up is looking to clean it up by launching the world's first commercial space-sweeping satellite.

It was a much-sought-after victory for Boeing after multiple setbacks.

For Musk, the billionaire SpaceX founder who also heads the electric carmaker Tesla Inc, the outcome was mixed news.

Arceneaux relates how she spent a difficult yet meaningful year in hospital undergoing chemotherapy, and then surgery that replaced part of her femur with a prosthesis.

The robotic probe initiated and completed a 15-minute burn of its thrusters, the China National Space Administration said in a statement.

A video was published on SpaceIL's Twitter with the text "Ready to get excited again?"

If the mission is completed as planned, it would make China the third nation to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union.

NASA officials signed off on Crew Dragon’s final design earlier this week, ending a nearly 10-year development phase for SpaceX under the agency’s public-private crew program.