05 September 2018
Soyuz leak investigations focus on human error
Investigations into an air leak in a Soyuz return spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) have been stepped up as it was revealed this week that the hole was most likely a result of human error rather than a micro-meteorite impact...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... Standard Payload Rack (ISPR) cultivation system for potential testing onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Furthermore, a Future Exploration Greenhouse (FEG) is designed with respect to future planetary bio-regenerative life support...
12 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... the space station at the end of its lifetime. The International Space Station’s other partners have not formally signed on for participation in the program after 2020. The European Space Agency plans to put forward a proposal for more space station...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
... Salyut space stations of the former Soviet Union, the International Space Station (ISS) with Tiangong 1, as well as short-term overlaps of two generations of the Salyut space stations. However, in all these cases, the stations worked independently...
January 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... reality. As human beings we can go to space and we have a destination there. It’s the International Space Station. I like to call it humanity’s outpost in space. Samantha Cristoforetti Without any doubt, it is the most amazing feat of engineering...
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 ...
