January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... and that commercial service contracts and income will provide the rest. The size and complexity of the United States major space programmes - the International Space Station, Space Launch System and Orion capsule - might have benefited from a better...
October 2024
Cupola views: Karen Nyberg’s space-inspired fabric lines
... craft projects, Earth Views. Nyberg worked with designers at Robert Kaufman Fabrics to turn the photos she took during her time on the International Space Station into images that worked well on fabric and would look good in a quilt. She...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
In space research, the International Space Station (ISS) is a symbol of peaceful interational collaboration in Earth orbit, and is intended to be used intensively as a one-of-a-kind laboratory for ...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
...dental restorations, suffers severe tooth pain and cannot continue with his duties (Figure 2b). Currently, for the International Space Station (ISS), all crew members receive pre-flight medical examinations, including a dental check and basic medical...
February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
... and research institutions from developing countries the opportunity to deploy cube satellites from the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS). With JAXA, we recently selected the first successful candidates for this programme...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... surface-modified materials continue to be tested in orbit, for instance on the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE). The dome-shaped Cupola on the International Space Station (ISS) is made from forged, then heat-treated aluminium...
