20 December 2021
Japanese space tourists land safely on Earth after 12 days on ISS
A Japanese billionaire returned to Earth Monday, after 12 days spent on the International Space Station where he made videos about performing mundane tasks in space including brushing teeth and going to the bathroom. Online fashion tycoon Yusaku ...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
...lead to save the Russian Mir space station and turn it into the world’s first commercial space station. Walt Anderson and I had ... and NASA, fearing the contrast between a low-cost private space station and what was to turn out to be their US$100 ...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... fostered an even more favourable climate across Canada for Canadian involvement. Canada’s contribution would be a suite of space robots for Space Station assembly and maintenance. The MSS would include Canadarm2, the Mobile Base, and Dextre, a two...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... a different sense of home. Don was part of the Expedition 6 crew that was on the International Space Station in 2003 when we lost the Space Shuttle Columbia. He left Earth believing he would return to Florida aboard the Shuttle. Instead, he landed...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
...-down in the picture, and it’s a fun keepsake that enables us to share a little of what it’s like to live in space. On the space station, we have a saying that “yesterday’s coffee becomes this morning’s coffee.” As on Earth, water is a precious and...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... aboard the ISS, Nyberg loved to photograph the breathtaking views of the Earth through the windows of the space station’s cupola: swirly ocean currents, dense forests, sandy deserts, patterned white clouds, golden sunsets, farmlands, and...
