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21 September 2026 is 23 years since the Galileo mission ended. NASA sent the spacecraft into Jupiter’s atmosphere on 21 September 2003, after almost 1...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on 30 August 2026 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on a Falcon Heavy, is in its on-or...
World Space Week is held every year from 4 to 10 October. The 2026 edition has the theme “Rocket Revolution”, announced by the World Space Week Associ...
Former NASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams turns 61 on 19 September 2026. She was born in Euclid, Ohio, grew up in Needham, Massachusetts, graduated...
18 September 2026 marks five years since the Inspiration4 splashdown. The Crew Dragon Resilience capsule returned to the Atlantic off Florida on the e...
18 September 2026 marks 20 years since Anousheh Ansari launched towards the International Space Station. ESA reported the Soyuz TMA-9 lift-off from Ba...
18 September 2026 marks 67 years since the scientific satellite Vanguard 3 launched from Cape Canaveral. NASA’s NSSDC catalogue lists it as 1959-007A....
On 18 September 1977, two weeks after its 5 September launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 pointed its imaging system back towards Earth. From more than 11 millio...
17 September 2026 marks 18 years since the International Astronomical Union assigned the name Haumea to a body beyond Neptune and classified it among...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has studied the Moon since 2009, has identified a recently formed impact crater about 222 metres across and...
17 September 2026 marks 67 years since the first powered flight of the X-15 rocket plane, one of the most important experimental programmes in America...
17 September 2026 marks exactly 50 years since the public debut of Enterprise, the first vehicle built for NASA’s Space Shuttle programme. The ceremon...
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