Missions

The latest news from the spacecraft helping us explore the cosmos, and the historical missions that paved the way.

Alexei Leonov pictured during the Voskhod 2 mission that saw him become the first person to perform a spacewalk. Credit: Getty Images / SVF2 / Contributor

Alexei Leonov, the first person to spacewalk, dies aged 85

An artist's impression of the Galileo spacecraft at Jupiter. Credit: NASA

Into the realm of Jove: remembering NASA’s Galileo mission, 30 years on

Former NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan. Credit: Debbie Rowe

Interview Astronaut Kathy Sullivan on Hubble, Space Shuttle and being the first US woman to spacewalk

The Dream Chaser pictured following a 60mph tow test at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, California. Credit: Ken Ulbrich

Whatever happened to spaceplanes?

Space shuttle Columbia launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying the first United States Microgravity Laboratory, June 25, 1992. Credit: NASA

A history of NASA’s Space Shuttle

The Northern Lights blaze a path through a valley leading away from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Credit: REUTERS / Lucas Jackson

How Cluster is uncovering the secrets of the aurora

An artist's depiction of the Juno spacecraft in orbit above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

What has NASA’s Juno mission discovered at Jupiter?

ESA's new Comet Interceptor mission will send a spacecraft to study a pristine comet entering the Solar System for the first time. Credit: Comet Interceptor

Interview How Comet Interceptor will encounter a pristine comet in space

An artist's concept showing NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in front of an infrared image of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Interview NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: the legacy of a Universe in infrared

Tim Peake pictured on the ISS as part of his Principia mission. Credit: ESA/NASA

Interview Tim Peake on the future of UK and ESA spaceflight

Neil Armstrong's flown spacesuit. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The Apollo spacesuit

Installation of the F-1 engines. Credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Secrets of Apollo The Saturn V's F-1 engine

NASA planned to convert the upper stage of a Saturn V rocket to hold Venus-bound astronauts. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The missions that might have been

History of the moon landing

History Extra The history of the moonlanding

The Apollo Guidance Computer delivered astronauts safely to the lunar surface. Credit: NASA

Secrets of Apollo The Apollo Guidance Computer