In October 2023, NASA launched spacecraft named 'Psyche' to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system.
After the launch of Rehber-1 in 1962 by SUPARCO, Pakistan became the third country in Asia, after Israel and Japan, first country in South Asia, the Islamic world and the tenth in the entire world to launch a rocket into space.
The commitment to the US lunar mission was announced by president John F. Kennedy in May 1961. It was fulfilled in eight years later in July 1969, when Apollo 9 sent two astronauts - Neil Armstrong and 'Buzz'Aldrin- to the moon and returned them to earth safely, to be welcomed by Kennedy's successor (and nemesis) president Richard Nixon.
Artemis II is the first crewed mission of NASA’s
Artemis program, marking the first time humans have returned to the vicinity of
the Moon in over 50 years.
It was successfully launched on April 1, 2026, from
Kennedy Space Center.
The crew completed their closest approach to the
Moon on April 6, 2026, and is scheduled to return to Earth for a splashdown in
the Pacific Ocean on April 10, 2026.
In November 2022, The European Space Agency named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space.
