space station

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On Monday it launched its Shenzhou-23 spacecraft, sending a crew of astronauts to the country's Tiangong space station.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

The company's next milestone was space station delivery: Its Dragon spacecraft reached the International Space Station in 2012, later becoming the first private spaceflight company to send a crew to space.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

There’s a sci-fi podcast called “Wolf 359,” about a crew of a space station circling a red dwarf star.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Throughout the 2010s, American astronauts reached the space station by hitching rides on Russian Soyuz rockets, until a burgeoning private-sector spaceflight industry stepped in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

April 19, 1971: The first space station, Salyut 7, is launched.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson