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A British Paralympian and surgeon may become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit following a government agreement with a US company constructing a small commercial space station.

The first missions aimed at building a base on the moon will be launched before the end of the year, NASA leaders announced Tuesday.

Chilling audio has revealed Apollo 12 astronauts saw mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in space, according to a new UFO file dump ordered by President Trump.

Using the Moon’s gravity for a “free” return journey, it took the crew four days to get back to Earth after it created history on their pass behind the Moon.

The number of human beings who have traveled to the moon and returned safely to Earth will increase to 28 on Friday night when NASA’s Orion capsule containing four Artemis II.

A Nasa official has said he’ll ’be anxious’ as Artemis II returns to earth after midnight tonight.

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission have started the journey home after making history on their pass behind the Moon.

Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight around the Moon made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT on Monday, traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

NASA’s first manned Moon mission in more than five decades fired its rockets early on Friday to break out of Earth’s orbit.

Nasa’s moon rocket Artemis II launched on Wednesday evening, carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years.

NASA is accelerating plans to send humans back to the moon, with a possible launch as early as 5 February.

Two astronauts stuck in space for nearly nine months are finally on their way back to Earth.

Neither NASA nor its Russian counterpart agency ROSCOSMOS are yet to disclose why it was that the four astronauts were whisked to hospital after they touched down in Florida today

European Space Agency testing Paralympian sprinter to see how conditions in space would affect his prosthesis

The two astronauts were only meant to be in space for eight days, but due to technical issues they won’t return until 2025. Do they have enough supplies for such a stint, how are they coping mentally and what is day-to-day life like up there?