January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...me about coming back to Earth with 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...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... days living and working as a crewmember on both the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle, a personal highlight was painting the first watercolour in space. She is co-founder of the Space for Art Foundation, uniting a planetary community...
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...
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...
