Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human spaceflight remains a difficult business.
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The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission went into quarantine on Jan. 23, keeping everything on track for a possible launch in early February.
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The Artemis 2 moon mission will send a swatch from the famous Wright Flyer, along with a number of other aerospace artifacts, when it launches in the coming weeks.
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Artemis 2 is at the launch pad, but several big tests must be performed before it launches as soon as Feb. 6.

A NASA astronaut on the ISS captured the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 2, a mission that aims to bring four astronauts around the moon as soon as Feb. 6.
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The fact that Crew-11 returned to Earth safely despite unprecedented circumstances bodes well for the success of future missions that go farther afield, astronauts said.
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Astronaut Suni Williams left NASA late last month after 27 years of service. She spent a total of 608 days in space, more than all but one other American astronaut.
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The first emergency operation in the history of China’s human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule damaged by a space-junk strike came safely down to Earth.
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The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission will discuss their shorter-than-expected stay aboard the International Space Station today (Jan. 21), and you can watch it live.
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The evacuation raises a question worth exploring: how do astronauts stay healthy in space, and why is this early evacuation so unusual?
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