Expedition 73 gained three crewmates, expanding the International Space Station's complement to 10. Activities continued as the outpost extended beyond 25 years of a continuous human presence.

China has launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's Tiangong space station.

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft Friday, leaving three crewmates behind on the Tiangong space station with a busted lifeboat.

Current spacesuits weigh about 80kgs and can "restrict mobility", he explained. He said the idea behind the soft exosuit is that it can be worn under a spacesuit, and the artificial muscles will help astronauts "expend less energy" which can be an issue during space missions.

Three astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after being stranded due to a rare space debris incident. The Chinese crew was transported on board a different vessel than the one they were originally assigned, leaving another three astronauts with no return spacecraft.

Shenzhou 21 successfully landed with its three occupants on November 14, but that still left three astronauts on the Tiangong station without a safe return craft. On the ground at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s remote Gobi Desert, technicians scrambled to ready a standby rocket and ship for launch as soon as possible.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch on Thanksgiving to the ISS on a Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight. Instead, Boeing will perform a trial run with cargo to the International Space Station to prove the capsule's safety.

Boeing won't be allowed ferrying astronauts to and from the ISS with its plagued Starliner spacecraft for its next mission.

Three Chinese astronauts are stranded on board the Tiangong space station after their spacecraft was used to return another group to Earth.

The return of the three Shenzhou-20 astronauts was delayed for more than a week after their spacecraft was apparently hit by space debris.

China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco. The spacecraft will eventually ferry home the marooned Shenzhou-21 crew, who have been stuck without a return capsule for over a week.