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NASA astronaut Frank Borman in an undated photo. Borman served as the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the world. Courtesy NASA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Former US astronaut Frank Borman dies at 95

Borman spent a total of almost 20 days in space on two trips in the 1960

FILE PHOTO: The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this undated NASA handout photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program in 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout/File Photo

Rock collected by Apollo 17 astronaut in 1972 reveals moon's age

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US astronaut gets used to Earth after record-setting 371 days in space

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara board the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, September 15, 2023. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS

Two Russians, American reach space station

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Three Chinese astronauts return safely to Earth

FILE PHOTO: Commander Peggy Whitson, pilot John Shoffner, and mission specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi representing Saudi Arabia pose before the planned Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) launch to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US 21 May, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Private astronaut crew, including first Arab woman in orbit, returns from space station

Astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao attend a press conference before the Shenzhou-16 spaceflight mission to China's space station, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China 29 May, 2023. China Daily via REUTERS

China to send first civilian into space on Tuesday

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission. Photo: Collected

Who are the Nasa astronauts going to the moon?

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90

Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90

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China astronauts reach Tiangong space station

Europe names world's first disabled astronaut

The International Space Station (ISS) is photographed by Expedition 66 crew member Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov from the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, in this image released April 20, 2022. Pyotr Dubrov/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

Saudi Arabia buys pair of SpaceX astronaut seats from Axioms

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of ecommerce company Amazon.com Inc, sits with the crew of a scheduled flight before they board Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas, US on 11 December, 2021. Blue Origin/Handout via REUTERS.

Daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard soars to space aboard Blue Origin rocket