10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
... SpaceX under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). To accommodate this, NASA has expanded the International Space Station Utilization NASA Research Announcement (NRA) to assist U.S. Entities to pursue these missions. The announcement, made on Friday...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
..., along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency). The trio departed the International Space Station at 12:50 am EST and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing...
12 October 2016
NASA to move ahead with plans for private ISS modules
...their own modules and other capabilities to the International Space Station.” No other details are known at this time. ... of a Centaur upper stage into a commercial International Space Station module. According to the latest statement, NASA hopes ...
13 October 2017
Moon Express and NanoRacks sign alliance for Moon missions
... for a return mission to the lunar surface. NanoRacks on the other hand, operates on the International Space Station (ISS) via a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s U.S. National Labs. NanoRacks is under contract with NASA to work on a comprehensive...
01 March 2019
Crew Dragon gets ready for first liftoff
... that the launch proceeds as scheduled on Saturday, then Crew Dragon will be on target to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday around 6 a.m. EST (11:00 GMT). Although a flight readiness review (FRR) has been completed by SpaceX...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... and has even kept the nation from participating in the International Space Station (ISS). China has though started constructing its own larger, more permanent space station and has invited applications from around the world to conduct...
