June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... spaceflight - that is not ready for the next step which is actually to let go of the International Space Station (ISS). It will be tough, if not tougher, than letting go of the Space Shuttle and moving to reliance on commercial entities to provide...
04 August 2021
Starliner launch delayed indefinitely following "valve" problems
...Crew Dragon has already performed a successful mission to the ISS with astronauts on board – a flight which made spaceflight ...2019 ended with the capsule failing to rendezvous with the ISS due to various software problems. Although it did successfully...
March 2017
Space for art: Quilting in orbit
... and to highlight another first in the interaction between space and art, during her International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 37 mission in 2013, astronaut Karen Nyberg became the first astronaut and artist to quilt in space. Not...
23 September 2020
Third move for the ISS this year to avoid space debris
..., NASA. This is the third time this year that the ISS has had to move because of unwonted debris and is in ... into 77 different pieces last year, adding that it shot past the ISS at a relative velocity of 146 kilometres/second. At such a velocity,...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
... U.S. Entities to pursue these missions. The announcement, made on Friday, is part of a move towards full privatisation of the ISS in light of US President Donald Trump’s budget which last year called for the station to be defunded by the government...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
... still in very good shape," López-Alegría said. "The ISS is the most audacious and complex construction project ever undertaken in space...years. NASA has had hundreds of people supporting the ISS program at different times, said Robyn Gatens, the ...
