Tagged: space station

NASA has selected two companies to make spacesuits for its Artemis moon program and future International Space Station (ISS) missions. Teams led by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace (with ILC Dover as a major contributor) received access to a contract worth up to a total...

Thursday, July 8, 2021: Over 4,400 pounds (2,000 kilograms) of scientific samples and other material can be seen packed inside the Dragon cargo capsule ahead of its departure from the International Space Station today. The European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet tweeted the image...

Tuesday, July 27, 2021: A crash-test dummy called Rosie sits in the commander’s seat of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space capsule ahead of a test flight to the International Space Station later this week. The dummy, outfitted with 15 sensors, will help Boeing and NASA understand the...

An uncrewed Russian cargo ship blasted off Wednesday on a mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The Progress MS-17 lifted off atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russian space complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, at 4:27 a.m. (2327 GMT Tuesday). It’s scheduled to...

As Europe celebrates 20 years of ESA astronauts on the International Space Station, a Russian-European experiment has been running quietly in the weightless research center for just as long: the Plasma Kristall (PK) suite of investigations into fundamental science. Plasma Kristall takes a plasma and...

Researchers studying how bubbles form and function are sending a fully automated, self-contained experiment into space. The study, led by Tengfei Luo, a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, will be initiated by astronauts aboard the...

The 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations launches to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than June 3. Experiments aboard include studying how water bears tolerate space, whether microgravity affects symbiotic relationships, analyzing...

As part of preparing for an experiment aboard the International Space Station, researchers explored new ways to culture living heart cells for microgravity research. They found that cryopreservation, a process of storing cells at -80°C, makes it easier to transport these cells to the orbiting...

Training of the crew for the first entirely private trip to the International Space Station (ISS) is to begin soon, Axiom Space, the company behind the flight, said Monday at a joint press conference with NASA. Four astronauts are to be launched to the ISS...

As a public service, Art Maurer would like you to know that the bright light you might see skimming across the early morning sky later this week is not a UFO. Maurer runs the planetarium at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Ill., and in that...