Hilary Swank talks about her role for Netflix as the commander on the first manned mission to Mars.

Aligning polar satellites will enable the first ever reliable maps of Antarctic sea-ice thickness.

Mary Jackson was among the African-American women whose story was told in the film Hidden Figures.

SpaceX will need to beat the weather to get Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken into orbit.

Two US astronauts are about to go to orbit in a commercially developed rocket and capsule system.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken ready themselves and their kit for Wednesday's flight to the space station.

These are the key phases in the first crew mission to go to orbit from the US in nine years.

BBC News profiles the space travellers who will launch in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on Wednesday.

BBC News answers questions about the first orbital launch of astronauts from US soil in nine years.

A review panel finds no technical reason to delay the first US orbital crew launch in nine years.