NASA is flying humans around the Moon. ISRO is preparing its first crewed orbit. Two missions, two budgets, two visions for humanity's future in space.
NASA spends $25B, ESA pools 23 nations for ~$8B — yet both lead in science, Earth observation, and deep space. An honest side-by-side of how they differ.
NASA paused the Lunar Gateway in March 2026, pivoting $20B to a surface base. What happens to built hardware, ESA-JAXA-CSA partners, and the Artemis roadmap now.
From Valentina Tereshkova's 1963 Vostok flight to Peggy Whitson's record 665 days and Christina Koch on Artemis II: the women astronauts reshaping human spaceflight.
