November 30th, 2025
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A new video spotlights the Shenzhou-21 crew members — Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang — on board China’s Tiangong space station. The trio of taikonauts has been conducting multiple science experiments, including their first full-system emergency response drills in orbit over the past week. The threesome have been in orbit for a month […]
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Skeptic magazine publisher and historian of science Michael Shermer has issued a $1,000 bet that discovery or disclosure of alien visitation to Earth in the form of UFOs, UAPs, or any other technological artifact or alien biological form, as confirmed by major scientific institutions and government agencies, will not happen by December 31, 2030. And […]
That recent Russian Soyuz liftoff on November 27 in Kazakhstan heading for the International Space Station (ISS) left in its wake launch pad damage. The Soyuz MS-28 spaceship carried Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams. They successfully docked with the ISS later in the day. “Damage to several […]
China has unveiled a program for a new-generation space situational awareness constellation. That gaggle of 156 satellites is named EYESAT, with deployment to start early next year. EYESAT is aimed at creating a globally covered and rapidly responsive monitoring network in near-Earth orbit to enhance space environment safety, according to China Central Television (CCTV). Collision […]
A veteran Canadian astronaut has called for international joint efforts to handle emergency events in space, underscoring the rapid launch of the Shenzhou-22 for an emergency mission. Former astronaut Julie Payette was the first Canadian to reside on the International Space Station in 1999 and also lived onboard the ISS in 2009. Payette is currently […]
The message from AstroAccess: “If we can make space accessible, we can make any space accessible.” AstroAccess Ambassador Michaela “Michi” Benthaus is on a trajectory to become the first wheelchair user in space. Her space journey will take place aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket, according to a posting. AstroAccess, a project of SciAccess, […]
More details are available regarding the saga of engineers and ground staff in China’s first-ever emergency launch – the plight and flight of the uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft. The crewless spaceship – including an escape tower — sat atop a Long March-2F Y22 carrier rocket, lifting off shortly after noon local time on November 25 from […]
Billed as the first emergency launch mission in China’s human spaceflight program, an uncrewed, cargo-loaded Shenzhou-22 spaceship was launched on November 25. Shenzhou-22 later docked with the front port of China’s Tiangong space station’s Tianhe core module. Flying without a three-person crew aboard, the vessel carried a cargo of space food, medical supplies, fresh fruit […]
Word today from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA): The launch of the Shenzhou-22 spaceship is set for November 25 Beijing time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest. Currently, the Long March 2F Y22 carrier rocket has completed propellant loading. The now in orbit Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew is working normally and in […]
China purposely delayed the return of its Shenzhou–20 crew from the country’s space station. The reason: a suspected impact of space debris that compromised the crew’s return vessel’s window. Space officials in that country labeled the November 5 wave-off of the crew’s return to Earth as the first successful implementation of an “alternative return procedure” in […]
