July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... status of your major projects? KAVANDI Our first launch of a Dream Chaser cargo vehicle to the International Space Station is planned for the second half of 2022. We have seven missions on contract right now, and we’re also planning a crewed version...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... most important foundation that I have discovered in the 20 years that I’ve worked in space is international cooperation. Throughout my time in ESA and the International Space Station programme we have faced many difficulties, but we were always able...
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...
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...
