July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... and constituent recovery, emergency systems and environmental monitoring. Over the past 20 years, the International Space Station (ISS) has validated processing capabilities that drastically reduce the amount of supplies that need to be transported...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... planned American return to the Moon, the Gateway project and then the Artemis Accords. Unlike the International Space Station (ISS), which was designed and operated by a partnership of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada, the...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
...training for post-splashdown action. ISS-57 crew members Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague using a Space Station simulator. ISS experience The International Space Station (ISS) community is an international crew, where people of different nationalities...
30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
...’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission after Russia’s Nauka module ran into trouble soon after docking at the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday. Launched 21 July, "Nauka" ("Science" in Russian) is Russia's primary new research module on the...
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-...
