04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
Critical elements of a new instrument attached to the International Space Station (ISS) this summer, and designed to examine the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha ...
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...
February 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
Space for art
... special place I was living in space, but also of the incredibly special and ultimately important place I had the privilege of witnessing from that awesome and surreal vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS). Inspirational artwork used...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... reproduction during short-duration (around two weeks) flight experiments aboard free flying satellites, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station (ISS). Longer duration (months and years) rodent analogue reproduction experiments aboard...
March 2017
Space is open for business
.... “We all have to take advantage of the amazing thing we have created in the International Space Station.” There was much talk about the value and benefits resulting from the International Space Station (ISS), a global platform for research and...
