February

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SpaceX launch of NASA's new 3D-sky-mapping satellite set for February 2025

Arianespace Pushes Second Flight of Ariane 6 to February 2025

Europa Clipper will slingshot off Mars in February, swing back around the sun and slingshot off earth in 2026 and finally insert itself into Jupiter orbit in 2030

NASA Decides to Play it Safe. Wilmore and Williams are Coming Home on a Crew Dragon in February

NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule

Two NASA astronauts may be stuck on the space station until February

Only the US, China, and Russia/USSR have launched astronauts to orbit. But India is now close to joining this exclusive group of spacefaring nations. In February India unveiled their first Gaganyaan mission astronauts, now slated to launch on an Indian capsule from an Indian rocket in 2025.

The Inside Story of the First Untethered Spacewalk. On February 7, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless ventured out into space and away from shuttle Challenger using only a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack.