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Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there were a record 19 people in outer space: the three astronauts on the MS-26 mission, three more on China's Tiangong space station, four people on the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and nine more on board the International Space Station.
2024-09-11

JAXA launches the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) lunar lander from Tanegashima Space Center. The Japanese mission will aim to become the fifth country to perform a soft landing on the Moon.
2023-09-6

An Epsilon S solid-propellant rocket upper stage, an upgraded version of JAXA's Epsilon launch vehicle, explodes about a minute after ignition during a test in Akita Prefecture.
2023-07-14

SpaceX successfully launches its Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying three NASA astronauts, Michael S. Hopkins, Victor J. Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the International Space Station. It is the first crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first night launch in the United States since STS-130.
2020-11-15

The International Space Station (ISS) successfully deploys the UK-led RemoveDEBRIS satellite, which is designed to test the removal of space debris in low Earth orbit. At 100 kg, RemoveDEBRIS is the biggest satellite deployed from the ISS.
2018-06-20

Experimental satellite RemoveDEBRIS arrives at the International Space Station ahead of a planned mission removing orbital debris.
2018-04-13

The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. This mission is Japan's first successful mission to another planet. The orbital injection was achieved using the probe's attitude control thrusters, a feat which has never been done before.
2015-12-7

An unmanned Space-X Falcon 9 space rocket explodes 2 minutes after take-off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket was on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. This is the third such incident in a year.
2015-06-28

The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer "Hayabusa2" from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 to collect rock samples.
2014-12-3

Russian cargo ship Progress fails to dock with the International Space Station.
2010-07-2