13 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...
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
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...
May 2020
Space for Art – The magnificent beauty of spaceflight
There’s nothing better than a spaceship to bring together the wonder of space, science and art. As we push forward to launching new spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and on to the Moon and Mars, and as more commercial activities ...
May 2022
Multinational training for interplanetary spaceflight crews
.... ISS-57 crew members Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague using a Space Station simulator. ISS experience The International Space Station (ISS) community is an international crew, where people of different nationalities, with their own psychological...
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...
