[6] On 30 January, Sunita Williams broke the world record for the most time spent on spacewalk by a woman when she accumulated 62 hours and 6 minutes on her ninth EVA.

[7] The first human spaceflight to polar orbit is expected to occur in March when Fram2 is planned to launch on Crew Dragon Resilience.

[8] ESA plans to conduct an orbital test flight of the Space Rider uncrewed spaceplane in the third quarter of the year.

[9] SpaceX expects to perform an in-space propellant transfer demonstration using two docked Starships in 2025—a critical milestone that will allow SpaceX to refuel their Starship HLS vehicle for an uncrewed lunar landing demonstration in the following year.

[11] Docking of two vehicles in space has previously only been achieved by the Soviet Union/Russia, United States, ESA, and China.