Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator who was among the first women to undergo astronaut testing and later became the oldest woman in space, has died at 87. Funk died peacefully at her Texas apartment after a recent illness.
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir captured breathtaking footage of the Aurora Australis from a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, showcasing luminous green ribbons flowing across Earth's atmosphere. The images offer a unique perspective on the phenomenon, highlighting the dynamic relationship between the Sun and Earth.
NASA astronauts on ISS took shelter in a SpaceX Crew Dragon for about an hour on Friday as a precaution during a Russian service module leak repair, which was paused for further assessment.
NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, who was born in Taiwan and lived in Taichung until age 2.5, visited the soon-to-open Meicun Integrated Service Park. Mayor Lu Shiow-yen invited Mann and AIT Director Brent Christensen to the park's opening ceremony on September 4.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will make his first journey to the International Space Station in July 2026 via Soyuz MS-29, serving as flight engineer during Expeditions 74 and 75 for approximately eight months. His career spans emergency medicine response to the 2010 Haiti and 2015 Nepal earthquakes, service as SpaceX's first flight surgeon supporting the Demo-2 mission, and leadership as a Colonel in the United States Space Force with over 100 F-15 flight hours.
NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will join Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Konstantin Borisov for the ISS-76 mission aboard Soyuz MS-30. Petelin will serve as Soyuz commander while Borisov and Burnham will be flight engineers. The team currently serves as backup crew for ISS-75.
Alongside Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk, will travel to the orbital station
