25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... of astronauts to its new space station, many see China’s latest ambitions as the beginning of a formidable space race with the US. As... including schematics of the joint International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) were also unveiled at GLEX 2021 with...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
... … As much as it’s worth celebrating, many of us are looking forward to it just being normal.” Six people are serving on the space station's current Expedition 61: Koch, Meir, and fellow NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, the European...
02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
...in the summer of 2021. “We’ve entered a bold new era of space exploration with the Artemis program, and we are thrilled to see so ... Program -- to live and work aboard the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth. There they will take part...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
... normal for keeping astronauts alive on long duration flights beyond low Earth orbit? Heading to the International Space Station (ISS) in December, is an experiment that gives body-building a whole new meaning. Due for delivery onboard a Soyuz...
23 September 2020
Third move for the ISS this year to avoid space debris
... when data on the event showed that some of the debris was suspected to be in an orbit shared by the International Space Station. Other reports on India's missile test also confirmed that at least a dozen fragments reached altitudes above 1,000...
08 January 2021
Asgardia’s project for new module to expand ISS
..., the state-of-art module would ultimately have the capacity to eventually form the core node of an autonomous space station operated by Asgardia. In his article, Dr Ashurbeyli notes that the limited number of available docking ports and related...
