25 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-...
25 February 2022
Space Station rides above international conflict
... amicable divorce. You can't do a conscious uncoupling." Despite the UK having no significant role in the fabric of the International Space Station, apart from through its membership of ESA, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, renowned for his...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...to nations across the globe to advance despite technological and economical hurdles. A rationale for cooperation The International Space Station orbiting at 400 km is a joint endeavour of the US, Russia, Canada, Japan and 10 European nations but with...
21 April 2017
Draper readies Dream Chaser for International Space Station
... to reality. The software will be on Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Dream Chaser® spacecraft for resupplying the International Space Station (ISS). When the un-crewed spacecraft launches to the ISS, its mission will be to deliver six tons of food...
26 October 2015
Skin deep: news study of the ISS and Actinobacteria
Published in Microbiome, a new analysis of microorganisms living aboard the International Space Station has found an unusually high proportion of bacteria specifically found on human skin. As the journal Nautilus notes, the ...
09 July 2015
ISS conference: Elon Musk, space station retirement plans, and uncertainty after 2024
...make a better rocket.” The chief concerns at the conference focused instead on what will happen when the International Space Station is retired, and on a lack of public awareness of the ISS, both as a venue for research that could be applied on Earth...
