Spaceflight

Hera orbiting Didymos

Hera: Europe’s asteroid mission to defend Earth

Podcast icon: Hera hovering over impact crater

Radio Astronomy Podcast Deflecting asteroids with Hera and DART

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo by Julian Leek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches in historic first crewed flight

Launch of Apollo 4 atop the first Saturn 5 Moon rocket. Credit: NASA

The history of the Saturn V rocket

A Soyuz rocket lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan, 18 October 2003. Credit: ESA-S. Corvaja 2003

The history of the Soyuz rocket

Tim Peake is currently the only Briton to have flown into space as an ESA astronaut. Here he is pictured during a 4 hour 43 minute spacewalk to replace a failed power regulator and install cabling on the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/NASA

How will Brexit affect Britain’s role in the European Space Agency?

Buzz Aldrin speaking at the Humans to Mars Summit, 22 April 2014 at George Washington University in Washington DC. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Moving to Mars: Buzz Aldrin’s vision of Martian exploration

The first journey to Mars could be the first step towards Martian tourism. But could the human body survive the trip? Credit: Михаил Руденко / Getty Images

How do astronauts survive isolation in space?

An artist's impression of NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The big space missions to look out for in 2020

An artist's impression of ESA's Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA

Radio Astronomy Podcast 2020 space missions and the latest from the Giant Magellan Telescope

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

Whatever happened to spaceplanes?

Wernher von Braun’s proposed spacecraft was based around three reusable Nuclear Shuttles. Credit: Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA

Wernher von Braun’s forgotten mission to Mars

Tim Peake floating in the cupola on the ISS.

Tim Peake’s Soyuz capsule returns to Science Museum, London

Apollo-9-mission-patch

The story of Apollo 9

PHOTO DATE: 06-16-15
LOCATION: Bldg. 7 - SSATA Chamber
SUBJECT: Expedition 46/47 crew member and ESA astronaut Tim Peake during SSATA Chamber dry run.
PHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD

Zero gravity changes astronauts’ minds