BERLIN--Two spacecraft are set to swoop past Venus within hours of each other this week, using the

Saturday after successfully docking aboard their Shenzhou-13 spacecraft. The astronauts, two men and a

ADVERTISEMENT A Russian Soyuz rocket took off to theInternational Space Station on Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted last minute. The launch was originally planned for Thursday but was halted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled lift-off.... Head of Russia's space agency, Yuri Borisov, said a voltage drop in a power source triggered the abort. The space capsule atop the rocket separated and went into orbit eight minutes after the launch and began a t

spacecraft circled the planet.... When it comes to a lengthy livestream from deep space, this is a

explorers into air and rocket fuel. Also on Saturday, the Russian spacecraft produced its first

--After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away.... Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager 2’s antenna back toward Earth.... The antenna is only 2% off-kilter.“ That is a long time to wait, so we'll try sending up commands several times" before then, Dodd said....

NASA was left" stunned" as a Russian spacecraft came within 10 metres of striking a satellite. The

spacecraft was aiming to be the first ever to land on the south pole of the moon, an area where

The astronaut will have logged 355 days in space by then, setting a new U.S. record.... Until SpaceX started launching astronauts in 2020, Americans regularly hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules for tens of millions of dollars per seat.... The U.S. and Russian space agencies are still working on a long-term barter system in which a Russian would launch on a SpaceX capsule beginning this fall and an American would fly up on the Soyuz....

NASA plans to send the four around the moon and back late next year.... Investigations into the capsule’s heat shield, however, could delay this first lunar trip by astronauts in more than half a century.... Last year’s test flight around the moon, with no one on board, resulted in unexpected charring and loss of material from the heat shield at the bottom of the capsule....