08 November 2017
Boeing and CASIS award $500,000 for microgravity research on ISS
... and bioprocessing reactions. "Our goal with independent research-and-development projects such as these is to maximise the [space station’s] use for collaboration among diverse users and improving life on Earth for years to come,” said Scott...
01 August 2018
What now for the ISS as new audit report questions commercial interest
For the past 20 years, the International Space Station (ISS) has served as an off-world floating laboratory for inhabitants around the globe to learn what it means to live and work in space. But what now lies ahead for the...
19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
... Roscosmos sends up some cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday 22 August, it not...will join the Russian crew currently stationed at the ISS to continue the tests of "the space-designated anthropomorphous system," said Dmitry ...
27 August 2021
China funds 5yr study into kilometre-scale ultra-large spacecraft
..., the nation recently began work on its Tiangong space station. Chinese astronauts are currently working on its 22-tonne...orbit aboard a Long March 5 heavy rocket back in April. The space station is expected to have a mass of about 100 tonnes and when ...
20 March 2020
SpaceX plans first crewed flight to ISS in May
... crewed launch from the United States to the International Space Station is planned for mid-May. The entrepreneur's company ...NASA has not set an exact date or time. The space station has been accessible to astronauts only through the purchase of seats...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
... back on Earth for astronauts returning from the Space Station. These tests include 13 successful single parachute drop tests,... for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station. Once Demo-2 is complete, and the SpaceX and...
