The road ahead
Space travel moves fast. This feed pulls current headlines automatically, and below it you'll find the milestones shaping the next decade of human spaceflight.
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What's coming next
Announced targets slip often — read them as direction, not appointment.
First private stations reach orbit
Commercial outposts like Vast's Haven-1 and Axiom's first module aim to begin flying — the opening moves in replacing the ISS.
Suborbital tourism resets
Virgin Galactic's faster Delta-class ships target a return to service, designed to fly far more often than the vehicles they replace.
Artemis III aims for the surface
NASA's crewed south-pole landing, using a SpaceX Starship lander, has slipped toward late 2027 or 2028.
The ISS retires
The station is expected to be deorbited around the turn of the decade, handing the baton to commercial outposts.
The Mars question
Crewed Mars missions remain a stated goal, but timelines are genuinely uncertain — a far harder problem than anything attempted so far.