13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... Pentagon. After NASA retired its space shuttles in 2011 to make way for a new space exploration program, the US space agency has relied on Russia to transport its astronauts to the International Space Station; seats that reportedly cost $70 million...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... team strapped samples of different bacterial thicknesses in aluminum plate wells in exposure panels attached to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The dried Deinococcus colonies were then left for one, two and three year durations...
22 June 2020
Virgin Galactic announces an agreement with NASA for private orbital spaceflight to the ISS
... company, announced today the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (“ISS”) while enabling the development of a robust...
13 June 2017
Asgardia nation to launch inaugural satellite
... carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its eighth operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station.
09 April 2018
Plans for first-ever luxury space hotel unveiled
.... This exclusive holiday destination will host up to six people at a time – including two crew members – on the modular space station, but it is not all about frivolities and superior views, as the company envisage that Aurora will have...
17 November 2021
Debris from destroyed Russian satellite now visible in telescope images
...ahead.” The new debris is moving in the same orbit as the Station, which is to around 400 kilometres in altitude, at more than ... the space environment as well as Russia does,” Gordon said during a Center for Strategic and International Studies online...
