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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after he, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Photo by (NASA/Keegan Barber)\ Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashdown

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after he, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Photo by (NASA/Keegan Barber) Mandatory Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Official Portrait of First Two Groups of NASA Astronauts

Official portrait of the seven original Mercury astronauts plus new members of the astronaut corps taken on February 19, 1963. Seated from left to right are: Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. Standing from left to right are: Edward White, James McDivitt, John Young, Elliot See, Charles Conrad, Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, Thomas Stafford, and James Lovell. Photo by NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Astronauts Stuck in Orbit for Nine Months Leave Iss for Earth

Handout photo dated March 16, 2025. shows The four SpaceX Crew-10 members and the seven Expedition 72 crew members join each other for a welcoming ceremony shortly after the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the International Space Station and the hatches opened. ISS on March 16, 2025. After nine months stranded aboard the ISS, American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will finally be returning to Earth. Their mission, initially scheduled for eight days, has been extended due to technical problems on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Accompanied by another American and a Russian cosmonaut, they left the station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, which detached from the ISS early on March 18. Their return is scheduled for the evening off Florida, where their capsule will be slowed by parachutes before being recovered. Eager to be reunited with their loved ones, the astronauts have kept their sense of humor, with Suni Williams even throwing out to her family, “Don't plan anything without me!”. Ph

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Thanksgiving Beyond Earth

Handout photo dated November 27, 2018 shows Getting all ten members of an aggregation consisting of seven Endeavour astronauts and three Expedition 18 crewmembers into a single photo wasn't easy as the two crews shared a Thanksgiving meal on the middeck of the orbiter. Astronaut Sandra Magnus, Expedition 18 flight engineer, appears at top center. Clockwise from her position are astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Eric Boe, along with cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, and astronauts Steve Bowen (partially visible behind Lonchakov), Donald Pettit, Michael Fincke, Gregory Chamitoff, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Chris Ferguson (partially visible at top right). Ferguson is STS-126 commander, and Fincke is commander for the station crew. Since 1973, astronauts have celebrated Thanksgiving in space, bringing a cherished tradition far beyond Earth. The first Thanksgiving in orbit took place aboard Skylab during the Skylab 4 mission, where astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, and William Pogue marked the day with an improvis

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHENZHOU-17 CREW-FIRST SPACEWALK-COMPLETION (CN)

(231221) -- BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 21, 2023 shows Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo (R) and Tang Shengjie returning to the Wentian lab module and closing the hatch. The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:35 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked seven-and-a-half hours to complete set tasks such as a Tianhe core module solar wing repair test, with the assistance of a ground team and the space station's robotic arm. It was the second time that Tang Hongbo, China's first space traveler to return to the space station for a second mission, has performed a spacewalk. Tang Shengjie became the country's youngest astronaut to carry out an extravehicular mission. (Photo by Han Qiyang/Xinhua)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHENZHOU-17 CREW-FIRST SPACEWALK-COMPLETION (CN)

(231221) -- BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 21, 2023 shows Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo (R) and Tang Shengjie preparing to exit the Wentian lab module. The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:35 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked seven-and-a-half hours to complete set tasks such as a Tianhe core module solar wing repair test, with the assistance of a ground team and the space station's robotic arm. It was the second time that Tang Hongbo, China's first space traveler to return to the space station for a second mission, has performed a spacewalk. Tang Shengjie became the country's youngest astronaut to carry out an extravehicular mission. (Photo by Han Qiyang/Xinhua)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHENZHOU-17 CREW-FIRST SPACEWALK-COMPLETION (CN)

(231221) -- BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 21, 2023 shows Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo (L) and Tang Shengjie performing extravehicular activities. The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:35 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked seven-and-a-half hours to complete set tasks such as a Tianhe core module solar wing repair test, with the assistance of a ground team and the space station's robotic arm. It was the second time that Tang Hongbo, China's first space traveler to return to the space station for a second mission, has performed a spacewalk. Tang Shengjie became the country's youngest astronaut to carry out an extravehicular mission. (Xinhua/Li Jie)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHENZHOU-17 CREW-FIRST SPACEWALK-COMPLETION (CN)

(231221) -- BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 21, 2023 shows Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo (R) and Tang Shengjie performing extravehicular activities. The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:35 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked seven-and-a-half hours to complete set tasks such as a Tianhe core module solar wing repair test, with the assistance of a ground team and the space station's robotic arm. It was the second time that Tang Hongbo, China's first space traveler to return to the space station for a second mission, has performed a spacewalk. Tang Shengjie became the country's youngest astronaut to carry out an extravehicular mission. (Xinhua/Li Jie)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHENZHOU-17 CREW-FIRST SPACEWALK-COMPLETION (CN)

(231221) -- BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Dec. 21, 2023 shows Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo (R) and Tang Shengjie performing extravehicular activities. The Shenzhou-17 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:35 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked seven-and-a-half hours to complete set tasks such as a Tianhe core module solar wing repair test, with the assistance of a ground team and the space station's robotic arm. It was the second time that Tang Hongbo, China's first space traveler to return to the space station for a second mission, has performed a spacewalk. Tang Shengjie became the country's youngest astronaut to carry out an extravehicular mission. (Photo by Han Qiyang/Xinhua)

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Canada Faces Worst Wildfire Season On Record

Handout - On August 16, 2023, astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured a detailed photograph, which shows smoke in valleys in British Columbia near the towns of Golden and Revelstoke Canada is facing one of the worst fire years it has seen in decades, according to data published by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. More than 13.7 million hectares (33.9 million acres) had burned as of August 17, seven times the 25-year average. Photo by NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Space shuttle crew in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - All seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery mission carried out in the spring of 2010 meet the press at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on June 28, 2010. The astronauts including commander Alan Poindexter (C) and Japanese mission specialist Naoko Yamazaki (3rd from R) transported supplies and equipment from Earth to the International Space Station aboard the shuttle.

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Discovery astronauts attend welcome ceremony

HOUSTON, United States - The crew members of NASA's space shuttle Discovery, including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (2nd from R), celebrate during a welcome ceremony at Houston's Ellington Field in Texas on April 21, 2010. The seven-member crew returned to Earth the previous day from a 15-day mission to the International Space Station.

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station, with the earth in the background. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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U.S. space shuttle Discovery lifts off

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery, carrying seven astronauts, including Japan's Koichi Wakata, lifted off at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 15.

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Astronauts inspect Discovery's heat shield

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (L in front) waves to a camera from the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this image from NASA TV on June 1. The seven crew members aboard the space shuttle Discovery began their first full day of work in space and inspected the orbiter's heat shields in preparation for their arrival at the International Space Station on June 2.

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Endeavour crew heads to shuttle orbiter to await liftoff

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The seven-member crew of the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour, including Japanese astronaut Takao Doi (2nd L), pose for photographers before heading to the Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 10 to await liftoff scheduled for 2:28 a.m. (3:28 p.m. Japan time) on March 11. The astronauts will install the Japanese-made module 'Kibo' in the International Space Station during their 16-day mission.

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Discovery blasts off, carrying Japanese astronaut Noguchi

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The space shuttle Discovery lifts off on July 26 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first shuttle flight in almost two and a half years since the Columbia disaster. Carrying a crew of seven astronauts, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi, Discovery launched at 10:39 a.m. EDT.

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Discovery blasts off, carrying Japanese astronaut Noguchi

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 26. Carrying a crew of seven astronauts, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi, it reached orbit about 9 minutes after liftoff, NASA said.

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NASA lets media watch Noguchi's training

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (R) is trained at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 18. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) allowed the media to observe the training session. Noguchi is scheduled to join the Atlantis mission, the first U.S. shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts.

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Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on return to earth

HOUSTON, United States - People place flowers and balloons among other items Feb. 1 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to mourn the seven astronauts who died in a space shuttle disaster. The U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke up and disintegrated at high altitude over Texas earlier in the day shortly before it was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida following a 16-day space mission.

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Astronauts brief Japanese science minister

TOKYO, Japan - Brian Duffy (standing, L), commander of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, briefs Japanese officials including Nobutaka Machimura, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, Jan. 15 in Tokyo on the latest mission completed in October. Japanese mission specialist Koichi Wakata (2nd from L), one of the shuttle's seven crew members, also attended the meeting.

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Discovery blasts off

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The space shuttle Discovery lifts off Oct. 11 from Kennedy Space Center, beginning an 11-day mission to deliver critical components to the International Space Station (ISS). Carrying a crew of seven astronauts including Japan's Koichi Wakata, Discovery roared into the Florida night sky at 7:17 p.m. after a six-day delay.

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NASA astronauts complete spacewalk for solar array work

STORY: NASA astronauts complete spacewalk for solar array work DATELINE: March 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the space walk STORYLINE: NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari had a seven-hour-long spacewalk Tuesday in preparation for upcoming solar array installation. Barron and Chari completed their spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for upcoming solar array upgrades by assembling and installing modification kits, said NASA. They built a support bracket onto which a future ISS roll out solar array (iROSA) will be mounted. So far, two of six iROSAs have been deployed on the station with four additional arrays to be delivered. The arrays will ultimately augment six of the space station's eight power channels, increasing the station's total available power from 160 kilowatts to up to 215 kilowatts, said NASA. It was the 247th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades and maintenance, accord

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ISS Solar Transit

Handout composite image made from six frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven aboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, Friday, April 23, 2021, as seen from Nottingham, Maryland. Aboard are: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Mark Vande Hei; Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Joining the crew aboard station tomorrow will be Crew-2 mission crew members: NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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ISS Solar Transit

Handout photo of the International Space Station, with a crew of seven aboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second, Friday, April 23, 2021, as seen from Nottingham, Maryland. Aboard are: NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Mark Vande Hei; Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov; and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Joining the crew aboard station tomorrow will be Crew-2 mission crew members: NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Discovery blasts off, carrying Japanese astronaut Noguchi

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The space shuttle Discovery lifts off on July 26 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first shuttle flight in almost two and a half years since the Columbia disaster. Carrying a crew of seven astronauts, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi, Discovery launched at 10:39 a.m. EDT. (Kyodo)

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Endeavour crew heads to shuttle orbiter to await liftoff

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The seven-member crew of the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour, including Japanese astronaut Takao Doi (2nd L), pose for photographers before heading to the Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 10 to await liftoff scheduled for 2:28 a.m. (3:28 p.m. Japan time) on March 11. The astronauts will install the Japanese-made module 'Kibo' in the International Space Station during their 16-day mission. (Kyodo)

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U.S. space shuttle Discovery lifts off

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery, carrying seven astronauts, including Japan's Koichi Wakata, lifted off at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 15. (Kyodo)

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Discovery blasts off, carrying Japanese astronaut Noguchi

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 26. Carrying a crew of seven astronauts, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi, it reached orbit about 9 minutes after liftoff, NASA said. (Kyodo)

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Discovery blasts off

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - The space shuttle Discovery lifts off Oct. 11 from Kennedy Space Center, beginning an 11-day mission to deliver critical components to the International Space Station (ISS). Carrying a crew of seven astronauts including Japan's Koichi Wakata, Discovery roared into the Florida night sky at 7:17 p.m. after a six-day delay.

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NASA lets media watch Noguchi's training

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (R) is trained at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 18. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) allowed the media to observe the training session. Noguchi is scheduled to join the Atlantis mission, the first U.S. shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station, with the earth in the background. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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Space shuttle crew in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - All seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery mission carried out in the spring of 2010 meet the press at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on June 28, 2010. The astronauts including commander Alan Poindexter (C) and Japanese mission specialist Naoko Yamazaki (3rd from R) transported supplies and equipment from Earth to the International Space Station aboard the shuttle. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut installs module on space station

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronauts Naoko Yamazaki (L) and Soichi Noguchi pose inside the Japanese Experimental Module Kibo (Hope), Japan's first facility on the International Space Station. Yamazaki, one of the seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery, completed her key mission on April 7, 2010, using a robotic arm to pick up a logistics module and connect it to the ISS. (Photo courtesy of NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)(Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut installs module on space station

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronauts Naoko Yamazaki (R) and Soichi Noguchi pose inside the Japanese Experimental Module Kibo (Hope), Japan's first facility on the International Space Station. Yamazaki, one of the seven crew members of the space shuttle Discovery, completed her key mission on April 7, 2010, using a robotic arm to pick up a logistics module and connect it to the ISS. (Photo courtesy of NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)(Kyodo)

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Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on return to earth

HOUSTON, United States - People place flowers and balloons among other items Feb. 1 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to mourn the seven astronauts who died in a space shuttle disaster. The U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke up and disintegrated at high altitude over Texas earlier in the day shortly before it was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida following a 16-day space mission.