The X-38—had it gone operational—would not have been the first reusable spacecraft. But it helped lay the groundwork for ...

First-generation space stations had one docking port and could not be resupplied ... the Soviet space station program evolved from short-duration to long-duration stays. Like the first-generation ...

An image of a Dec. 11 SpaceX Commercial Resupply flight at an International Space Station docking port, captured by a Sen video camera. Credit: YouTube/Sen Sen’s 4K-resolution livestream will be ...

India launched a rocket Monday carrying two small spacecraft to test docking in space, a critical step for the country's dreams of a space station and a manned Moon mission. The mission is "vital ...

In addition, it features storage space and two hatches for spacewalks. To clear the docking port for Nauka, a Progress cargo resupply spacecraft will be used to remove Pirs from the Station.

After a 13-hour flight, China successfully docked the final module to its space station. Mengtian, which translates to “Dreaming of the Heavens,” is designed to study physics and microgravity ...

The technology is essential for the country's future ambition to build an Indian space station ... that the docking had "finally" happened. The two spacecraft on SpaDeX (short for Space Docking ...

For Chandrayaan-4, which requires docking to bring back samples, Isro will be operating spacecraft of different sizes, while docking for the space station would have different challenges.