In contrast, the Fram2 mission's 90-degree inclination means it will pass directly over both the North and South Poles. This ...

While Fram2 is to be the first, crewed polar orbit missions have been considered before, as far back as the 1950s and 1960s with the U.S. Dyna-Soar space plane and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory ...

Exploration has never been a safe occupation. For every significant discovery, there has been sacrifice by those seeking out ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

The next manned flight, NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 ... including accommodating resupply flights and other operations aboard the orbiting laboratory." That crew will be announced at a later date.

In it, O'Neill chats with ISS National Lab Chief Scientific Officer Michael Roberts about the pioneering science occurring on the venerable orbiting lab and its real-life impact on technology ...

involves the orbiting of huge satellites, three-man crews at first and then six-man crew missions. It thus comes into direct competition with the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program of the Air ...

In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.