November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... be taken over by the private sector and with a desire to focus public funding towards further space exploration, the US Congress made the International Space Station (ISS) a national lab. SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the orbiting...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... of maintaining a sustainable presence in low Earth orbit (LEO). The International Space Station (ISS) programme remains the flagship programme for human spaceflight and international collaboration, although its longer term future remains uncertain...
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...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
...-100 Starliner, under the Commercial Crew Program. Both capsules are meant to carry crew members to the International Space Station (ISS) and back. NASA plans to buy the flights from each company as a service rather than owning the...
08 January 2021
Asgardia’s project for new module to expand ISS
...to build and supply a new node module for the International Space Station (ISS) are revealed in an exclusive article in the winter issue of the global space industry publication ROOM Space Journal. Asgardia - represented by three Austrian-based legal...
25 February 2022
Space Station rides above international conflict
...and its western allies could have serious repercussion for future space cooperation and even herald an early and catastrophic end to the International Space Station (ISS). Amidst heightened global tensions, unofficial comments from the head of Russia...
