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Humans in space: Are astronauts obsolete?

The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question ...
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Sunita Williams retires: How Indian-origin astronaut’s 286-day stuck space trip became the final odyssey of 27-year career

Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams retired from the US space agency on December 27, 2025, ending a 27-year career in which she set multiple records in human spaceflight. Williams was one of ...
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With Private Space Flight On the Rise, Who Gets to Be Called ‘Astronaut?’

The crew of the Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit. From left: Hayley Arceneaux, Dr. Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman, and Chris Sembroski photographed in Los Angeles, July 2021 ...