August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... to date is the Dream Chaser® spacecraft, a spaceplane selected by NASA for cargo resupply and return services to the International Space Station (ISS) starting in late 2020 under the CRS-2 contract. The Dream Chaser is part of a new...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... description of the MARE payload and its implications for enabling future human space exploration. While astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), at an altitude of about 400 km, are beyond the radiation protection of Earth’s atmosphere...
05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
... leak in a Soyuz return spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) have been stepped up as it was revealed this... might do such a thing given the obvious danger to the Space Station and its crew. “The theory one about a meteorite impact...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-...
31 July 2025
Space Station Crew-11 astronauts set for launch
... is set for the launch Crew-11 today (Thursday, 31 July) from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 12:09 Florida time (16:09 UTC) to the International Space Station (ISS). The weather outlook is currently 90 percent go and the weather in the recovery...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard the...
