24 August 2024
NASA formally abandons Starliner for crew return to Earth
... not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew. Wilmore and Williams, who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June aboard NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test on a scheduled eight-day mission, have been kept busy...
26 February 2018
International Space Station – Architecture Beyond Earth
The main triumph of the International Space Station (ISS) project is not so much the experiments conducted on board (though of course many of them are important in the context of human space exploration) but the fact that it is a football field-...
06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
A Russian actress and director arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to begin a 12-day mission to make the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood ...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... smaller – home will become. At any given time, there are usually six people living aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Over two hundred miles above the planet’s surface, Earth is a dominant presence, filling the window. Countries...
12 February 2018
Dream Chaser's first mission to ISS gets NASA go-ahead
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has been given formal approval by NASA to provide cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), with an anticipated launch window for late 2020. The resupply mission will be the first of six, as the ...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... Crew Program. Following the retirement of the shuttle, US astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However after 2019...
