A manned space mission that’s scheduled to depart in June’s second week will have a special guest on board. Axiom Space’s ...

The Axiom Space Ax-4 mission is set to liftoff this month in a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Here's what we know.

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION — Baby Yoda is now an honorary astronaut. A plush toy of Baby Yoda -- which became popular in the Star Wars series "The Mandalorian" on Disney+ -- can be seen ...

Astronauts have carried stuffed dolls to space before, and cosmonauts have a tradition of launching with small plush toys as talismans and "zero-g indicators." When the dolls, which are suspended ...

the Crew-1 astronauts brought along the beloved "Mandalorian" character as its zero-gravity indicator. As seen in the photo, a Baby Yoda plush toy was visibly floating around the Crew Dragon's ...

There is a dinosaur on board the International Space Station where there wasn't one before. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, who since May has been working as a flight engineer as a member of the ...

The plush toys can serve an important role in the flight, as they help indicate when the spacecraft has reached zero gravity and astronauts are experiencing weightlessness. An Earth-shaped plush ...

The Einstein plush toy was onboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft "Endurance" Snoopy will fly to the moon on the NASA's Artemis I mission Astronauts use stuffed toys as indicators of zero gravity ...

Shubhanshu Shukla will be joining the Axiom 4 mission as a designated astronaut under the Gananyaan mission. The launch of ...

The plush toy was dubbed a zero-gravity indicator, because once it begins to float, the astronauts, who are of course buckled down, know that they're experiencing weightlessness. A plush toy of ...

Astronauts have carried stuffed dolls to space before, and cosmonauts have a tradition of launching with small plush toys as talismans and "zero-g indicators." When the dolls, which are suspended ...