TLDR Exactly one mission has ever reached Pluto: NASA’s New Horizons, which launched in January 2006 and flew past the…
Suni Williams logged her retirement paperwork in December 2025, capping a 27-year career and three trips to the International Space…
TLDR Six missions have gotten close to Ganymede, and one is on its way to actually orbit it: No spacecraft…
TLDR NASA’s active astronaut corps hovers around 40 people at any given time, drawn from a pool that’s grown to…
Table of Contents TLDR Seven astronauts carry a real Connecticut connection: Jack Hathaway (South Windsor, currently aboard the ISS on…
Roughly fifty spacecraft have aimed themselves at Mars since 1960. About half of them made it. That failure rate alone…
TLDR Five NASA missions have laid eyes on Ganymede so far — Pioneer 10 and 11 (1973-74), Voyager 1 and…
Ask “who was the first Malaysian in space” and most answers stop at one name. The fuller story has four…
A NASA flagship mission is the biggest, most expensive, most ambitious kind of robotic science mission the agency runs. Think…
The Moon went quiet for a while. After the last Apollo astronauts left in December 1972, no human set foot…