Tag:Human Spaceflight

Meet the four Indian Air Force test pilots training to become India's first astronauts on Gaganyaan — and how one of them already flew to the ISS.

From Project 921 and Yang Liwei's 2003 first flight to Tiangong crew rotations, the Mengzhou spacecraft and a 2030 Moon landing — the Shenzhou story.

India's Gaganyaan will put Indian astronauts in orbit on a homegrown rocket. Meet the vyomnauts, understand the spacecraft, and learn what's at stake.

Inside Axiom Space: private astronaut missions, the AxEMU Artemis EVA suit, the AxH1 ISS module, and the staged plan for a standalone commercial station.

Where NASA's Artemis program actually stands in 2026: a successful Artemis II crewed flyby, the road to Artemis III's south-pole landing, the cancelled Lunar Gateway, and a restructured architecture built around SpaceX Starship HLS and Blue Origin's Blue Moon.

Gaganyaan will make India the fourth nation to launch its own astronauts — inside ISRO's crew module, GSLV Mk III, and the 2023 TV-D1 abort test that proved it works.

The ISS has hosted continuous human presence since November 2000 — a $150B Cold War handshake in orbit, retiring around 2030 after reshaping science and

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.