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President Donald Trump places a Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Artemis II astronaut and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen during a ceremony at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Friday, Aug 28, 2026. Photo: UNB

Artemis II astronauts receive top US space honor after moonshot

The April lunar flyby brought the crew within 4,067 miles (6,545 km) of the moon and set a new human distance record.

Photo: BSS

Artemis astronauts to study the Moon's surface using mainly their eyes

Photo: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Artemis II astronauts share stunning views of Earth on journey to the moon

Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna/TBS Creative

After 54 years, astronauts are going back to the moon

Just under 11 hours after the astronauts left the International Space Station, SpaceX guided the capsule to splash down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. Image: Keegan Barber/NASA/Planet Pix/ZUMA/picture alliance

Astronauts return to Earth after first ever medical evacuation from space station

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov land in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida on 18 March 2025. Photo: NASA.

Lost in space, found again: The nine-month odyssey of two astronauts

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off on June 5 following years of delays and safety scares affecting Starliner, as well as two aborted launch attempts that came as the astronauts were strapped in and ready to go. Photo: AFP

Astronauts stuck on ISS 'confident' Starliner will bring them home

Astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu attend a see-off ceremony before the Shenzhou-15 spaceflight mission to build China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China September 29, 2022. cnsphoto via REUTERS

China sends astronauts to 'Celestial Palace' in historic space mission

Photo: Collected

'Like the Moon': Astronauts flock to Spanish isle to train

Four astronauts start expedition to Mars

Four astronauts start expedition to Mars

Photo: BSS/AFP

First astronauts at China's new space station conduct spacewalk

The astronauts spent six months on the ISS. Photo: NASA via BBC

Nasa astronauts splash-land on Earth in SpaceX capsule after ISS mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Joe Skipper

Astronauts arrive at space station aboard SpaceX Endeavour