"But be patient with us. Let's make sure that the vehicle is ready to go and that our team is really certain before we hit ...

Cardman, who leads a crew of astronauts to the station on Thursday, was bumped from a similar mission last year.

Crew-11 will send NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Kimiya Yui of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the ISS for a roughly six-month ...

How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.