02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
... in a spacecraft orbiting above Earth, but that is how astronauts filled the breach on a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station when it was found in 2018. Now, according to Russian news site RIA, the company behind...
13 April 2020
Russia to cut launch rates after price war with SpaceX
... for a new space exploration program, the US space agency has relied on Russia to transport its astronauts to the International Space Station; seats that reportedly cost $70 million each. That is set to change when SpaceX’s Crew Dragon...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... team strapped samples of different bacterial thicknesses in aluminum plate wells in exposure panels attached to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The dried Deinococcus colonies were then left for one, two and three...
09 September 2020
The brain reorganises itself in space but is not destroyed, new study says
It’s good news for anyone planning on spending months floating around in the International Space Station (ISS) or for those who might one day find themselves on a long-haul flight to Mars, as ...
