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With Shenzhou-17, China takes another step towards its lunar goals
China sent its youngest crew of astronauts into space on Thursday to its Tiangong space station, with the ambition of strengthening its knowledge of human spaceflight and setting foot on…
Space travel: Astronaut Maurer lives a climate-conscious life
Space travel Astronaut Maurer lives climate-consciously Matthias Maurer in the Astronaut Center of the European Space Agency (ESA). photo © Thomas Banneyer/dpa Astronaut Maurer also sees himself as an environmental…
Space travel: Astronaut Maurer: Moon training facility will be open in May 2024
Space travel Astronaut Maurer: The lunar training facility will be ready in May 2024 The German astronaut Matthias Maurer would like to fly to the moon himself. photo © Bernd…
Longest ISS mission: astronauts set an involuntary record
As of: September 27, 2023 4:16 p.m The astronauts Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin were actually supposed to stay in space for 180 days. But a breakdown delayed their return home.…
Space travel: Two Russians and a US astronaut flew to the ISS
Space travel Two Russians and a US astronaut flew to the ISS Astronaut Loral O’Hara and her cosmonaut colleagues Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub before the spacecraft launch. photo ©…
Space travel: Two Russians and a US astronaut successfully launched into space
Space travel Two Russians and a US astronaut successfully launched into space Astronaut Loral O’Hara and her cosmonaut colleagues Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub before the spacecraft launch. photo ©…
Space travel: Astronaut Maurer: Europe needs its own rockets
Space travel Astronaut Maurer: Europe needs its own rockets ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer at the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Center in Cologne. photo © Thomas Banneyer/dpa There are currently private…
Boeing’s “Starliner”: Astronaut flight postponed
Status: 08/08/2023 09:13 a.m Astronauts should have started with the “Starliner” from Boeing to the ISS a long time ago. The spacecraft should now be ready for the first manned…
Three Chinese astronauts landed again
Status: 04.06.2023 8:25 a.m After six months aboard the Chinese space station “Tiangong”, three astronauts have landed safely in the Gobi desert. They had previously been replaced by a new…
Astronaut Thomas Reiter was the first German to walk in space
by Ruediger Braun 23.05.2023, 14:11 7 mins As an astronaut, Thomas Reiter was the first German in 1995 to venture into space – from the Russian space station “Mir”. In…