The seven members of the Expedition 73 crew worked on science and station keeping activities during their week together aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman recently captured footage of auroras over South Pacific Ocean, which she shared on social. The clip had 1.2 million views

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a five-month stay at the International Space Station. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Saturday, a day after departing the orbiting lab.

On Jan. 31, 1958, the United States orbited its first satellite. The effort was part of the nation's participation in the International Geophysical Year.

SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours. The four U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in their SpaceX capsule after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

NASA will pay for any designs it approves via a funded Space Act Agreement (SAA), rather than a firm fixed price.

India plans to launch the first module of the BAS, its own home-built space station, by 2028, marking its entry into the group of a handful of nations that operate orbital laboratories. Presently, there are two orbital laboratories.

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission ventured outside Tiangong to do the spacewalk, which concluded Friday at 9:27 a.m. EDT (1447 UTC, or 10:47 p.m. in Beijing). It was at least the second effort for the crew to put "debris protection" devices on the three-module space station, following similar work on May 22.