21 August 2020
A small air leak has been found on the International Space Station, says NASA
... and stressed that the leak is still within segment specifications. It presents no immediate danger to the crew or the space station, NASA added. The atmosphere in the off-word laboratory is normally maintained at a pressure comfortable for the crew...
27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
... Russian Segment of the ISS, Vladimir Alekseevich Soloviev. “Until 2025, Russia has obligations to participate in the International Space Station program. There are already a number of elements that are seriously affected by damage and are going out...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... its Congressional overseers have learned that the size and complexity of its major programmes - the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion capsule - would have benefitted from a better sense of scale and smaller size...
21 April 2021
Russia announces the first module of its new space station will be launched in 2025
...might be forging ahead with its own plans for a space station emerged last year, when a report from Russian manufacturer... Russia is ready to sole finance the construction of a new space station, the Deputy Prime Minister said in his TV interview; “we ...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
...taken by Zhurong, the country's first martian rover, but also gears up to send three astronauts to its orbiting space station in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's first Mars exploration mission...
19 February 2021
China's astronauts begin training for space station missions
Chinese astronauts have started receiving intensive training for spaceflights tasked with building the nation's space station, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Tuesday. Several astronauts have spent the past year in hard training and...
