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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 652

space travel

This handout picture provided by NASA shows support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on March 18, 2025. (Keegan Barber / NASA / AFP)
March 19, 2025, 9:52 am
NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stranded in space
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, along with another American and a Russian, plop down into water off coast of Florida, ending saga that captured world attention and sympathy
By Issam Ahmed
Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP)
October 13, 2024, 6:42 pm
In milestone achievement, SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight
Elon Musk hails success as ‘science fiction without the fiction part,’ after firm’s years of chasing rapid reusability; NASA seeks to use altered Starship for manned Moon landing
By Agencies
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, Sept. 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 15, 2024, 2:43 pm
Jewish tech billionaire back to Earth after first private spacewalk
SpaceX’s capsule splashes down in Gulf of Mexico carrying entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the 264th person to walk in space
By AP and ToI Staff
Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi waves to family and friends as she arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a scheduled launch Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP/John Raoux)
May 22, 2023, 6:58 am
Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut blasts off for space station
Saudi stem-cell researcher and fighter pilot, along with US businessman, head to International Space Station on Axiom charter, which flew Israeli Eytan Stibbe on debut trip in 2022
By Marcia Dunn
The Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the moon, December 11, 2022. (NASA via AP)
December 11, 2022, 11:01 pm
NASA’s Orion returns from lunar flyby, 50 years to the day since last moon landing
Spacecraft splashes down off coast of California, paving the way for live astronauts on the next flyby; capsule carries test dummy wearing Israeli radiation tech
By AP and ToI Staff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
December 11, 2022, 11:54 am
With UAE-made rover, Japan firm launches country’s 1st mission to put lander on moon
Module set to touch down on moon’s visible side in April 2023; payload includes Gulf country’s 22-pound ‘Rashid’ which if successful would be Arab world’s first lunar mission
By AFP
An artist's rendering of how plants may look growing in space. (NiseriN via iStock by Getty Images)
October 20, 2022, 4:03 pm
Israel, nation that made desert bloom, now aims to grow plants on the moon
Hoping to pave way for self-sustaining lunar bases, institute that helps turn Negev and other arid areas fertile preparing to blast mini-greenhouse of seeds and plants into space
By Nathan Jeffay
NASA's new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B hours ahead of a planned launch at the Kennedy Space Center, September 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)
September 3, 2022, 6:11 pm
NASA calls off 2nd attempt to launch Artemis moon rocket after further fuel leak
Engineers had scrambled to fix malfunctions, but launch for lunar orbit with dummies scrapped after 3-4 hours; test flight is part of project that could see humans on moon in 2025
By Marcia Dunn
The Ax-1 crew, including Israeli Eytan Stibbe, sit in the Dragon capsule ahead of their return to Earth from the International Space Station on April 24, 2022 (Screencapture/Axiom Space)
April 25, 2022, 4:29 am
After several days of delays, second Israeli in space begins journey back to Earth
Eytan Stibbe and the crew of Axiom-1 had originally been set to return on Wednesday, are now expected to splash down off the coast of Florida on Monday
By ToI Staff and AFP
Eytan Stibbe pictured by SpaceX before the April 8 launch of the Dragon spacecraft at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (SpaceX)
April 23, 2022, 10:09 pm
Israeli astronaut sees another delay in return to Earth; is now set to land Monday
Weather conditions force yet another postponement of crew capsule’s return; Eytan Stibbe had originally been set to return on Wednesday
By ToI Staff
Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe speaks to the Ynet news site from the International Space Station, on April 12, 2022. (Screen capture/Ynet)
April 21, 2022, 1:24 pm
Israeli astronaut’s return to Earth rescheduled for Sunday after weather delays
Company behind Axiom-1 mission says new departure time for Eytan Stibbe and rest of crew ‘chosen based on the best weather for splashdown’
By ToI Staff
Israel’s Eytan Stibbe enters the International Space Station, on April 9, 2022. (Screenshot/SpaceX)
April 19, 2022, 6:13 pm
Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe’s return to Earth delayed yet again due to weather
Businessman and former fighter pilot spent his extra time aboard the International Space Station doing a reading of the Hebrew children’s book ‘Beautiful World’
By ToI Staff
This photo provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX crew seated in the Dragon spacecraft on Friday, April 8, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Israeli Eytan Stibbe is at right. (SpaceX via AP)
April 8, 2022, 7:40 pm
2nd Israeli in space: Eytan Stibbe blasts off to perform experiments on ISS
Stibbe heads to orbiting lab in private charter flight with two other businessmen in hopes of gaining insights into health conditions, agriculture, optics, energy
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustration of the space shuttle that will carry Eytan Stibbe (Axiom Space)
April 8, 2022, 11:16 am
2nd Israeli to blast off to space, will perform experiments seeking health advances
Eytan Stibbe boldly goes where no Israeli has gone before — the ISS — amid hopes of gaining insights into range of conditions, including immune problems and Alzheimer’s
By Nathan Jeffay
This composite image made from a series of Jan. 23, 2018 photos shows a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Vera Rubin Ridge. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)
January 24, 2022, 4:32 pm
Israeli astrobiologist: New Mars ancient life findings ‘important’ but incomplete
Dr. Reut Sorek Abramovich says NASA discovery of signs of carbon in Red Planet rock samples requires ‘thorough research in the field,’ preferably by manned mission
By ToI Staff
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