All-UK astronaut mission shows that private enterprise is vital to the future of space exploration: Tim Peake could come out of retirement to command the mission. NASA The UK Space Agency has signed an agreement with a US company called Axiom Space to develop a space mission carrying four astronauts from the UK. The flight …
William Shatner to be oldest astronaut at 90 – here’s how space tourism could affect older people: Bryan Regan/Shutterstock Is space really the final frontier? William Shatner is set to find out as he boldly goes where no 90-year-old has gone before. Some 55 years after Captain James T Kirk hit our screens in the …
Have you got what it takes to become an astronaut in the new era of human spaceflight?: Astronauts Bob and Dough made it to the International Space Station in a privately funded vehicle. NASA Millions of people watched breathlessly as astronauts for the first time successfully travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) in a …