NASA has taken another step in expanding commercial spaceflight, confirming a fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in pa.

The next NASA crew rotation to the International Space Station could launch as early as the morning of February 11, the U.S. space agency said Wednesday.

NASA will launch two crewed missions in early February, sending astronauts to the ISS to prepare for Mars missions and another crew to orbit the moon.

Crew-11 was expected to splash down off the coast of California early Thursday.

They won't say what went wrong (or for whom), but we do know what equipment helped ensure all astronauts returned safely.

Houston-based Axiom Space has been selected by NASA for a fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the company announced Jan. 30. Axiom, which has flown four private charters to the ISS, expects to fly its fifth mission no earlier than January 2027. Crewmembers will...

With the wet dress rehearsal, essentially a critical fueling test of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System moon rocket, now back on Feb. 2, NASA said in a statement that it can no longer target Feb. 6 or Feb. 7, the first two days of its launch window. The Artemis 2 launch window originally ran from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10.

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain complete egress of the International Space Station during a spacewalk mission. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA | edited by Steve Spaleta