04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to...July aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule, EMIT was installed on the Space Station's truss a week later and made its first measurements on 28 July...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...like science fiction - but it’s reality. As human beings we can go to space and we have a destination there. It’s the International Space Station. I like to call it humanity’s outpost in space. Samantha Cristoforetti Without any doubt, it is the most...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for ...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
...medical conditions determined that the one condition most likely to result in a crew member’s departure from the International Space Station (ISS) is a dental abscess. Oral health is a primary concern for astronauts and goes hand in hand with general...
