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Fifty years after his Apollo 16 mission to the moon, retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke says he’s ready for the U.S. to get back to lunar exploration

While in space, the visitors did experiments and peered back at Earth.

US astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet

Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.

China on Thursday launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long-term, the latest success for a programme that has realised a number of its growing ambitions in recent years.

SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk.