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American billionaire Jared Isaacman becomes the first person to perform a commercial spacewalk as part of the "Polaris Dawn" private spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX.
2024-09-12

The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth.
2024-06-4

"Voyager 1", the farthest spacecraft from Earth, launched 46 years ago, stops sending data to Earth due to a technical glitch. However, the spacecraft can still receive commands.
2023-12-13

American spaceflight company Virgin Galactic successfully launches Galactic 01, its first private spaceflight, from Spaceport America in New Mexico, United States.
2023-06-29

SpaceX successfully launches a record 143 satellites into orbit on a single rocket in its "Transporter-1" mission. The payload consisted of 120 CubeSats, 12 microsatellites, 10 Starlink satellites, and 1 transfer stage. It is also the maiden flight of the SHERPA-FX satellite dispenser.
2021-01-24

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docks with the International Space Station (ISS) with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley joining the existing crew aboard the space station.
2020-05-31

Wolf 503b, a super-Earth exoplanet twice the size of Earth, is discovered orbiting Wolf 503 ru 503 145 light years away by American, German, and Canadian researchers via the NASA Kepler Space Telescope.
2018-09-6

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is reported to host complex carbon-based molecules. Considered a precursor to life, the compounds were only previously known to exist on Earth and some meteorites.
2018-06-27

NASA and the European Southern Observatory announce the discovery of four new Earth-like planets in the Goldilocks zone of the star TRAPPIST-1, in addition to the three discovered there last year.
2017-02-22

A few days later than initially planned, ATV-3 burns up; remaining parts plunge in the Pacific Ocean. The next mission docking with ISS, the first commercial resupply mission, with SpaceX Dragon is planned to launch on 8 October at 12:35 AM GMT. Unberthing and splashdown are targeted for 28 October. Orbital Sciences plans two Cygnus dockings to the ISS; in April 2013 follows "Albert Einstein" ATV (ATV-4). ATV-5 is planned April 2014.
2012-10-3