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The International Space Station pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly-around of the orbiting lab.

NASA reveals new date for Crew-7 mission to space station

NASA was aiming to launch SpaceX's Crew-7 astronauts to the ISS on August 17, but adjustments to other missions mean it's had to select a new date.
Space
Trevor Mogg
A man in a small room with a Circadian Light glowing red.

Could the key to living in space be … a good lighting system?

Space
Georgina Torbet
Space
Georgina Torbet
The International Space Station pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly-around of the orbiting lab.

NASA improves process for turning astronaut pee into drinking water

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
A new rollout solar array on the ISS.

Watch NASA’s new solar array unfurl on the space station

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Steve Bowen is pictured outside the International Space Station during his eighth career spacewalk, during which he routed cables and installed insulation to ready the orbital outpost for its next set of roll-out solar arrays.

How to watch ISS astronauts install a new solar array tomorrow

Space
Georgina Torbet
Space
Georgina Torbet
Astronaut Woody Hoburg watches as a new roll-out solar array deploys after he and fellow NASA spacewalker Stephen Bowen (out of frame) successfully installed it on the space station.

Astronauts install a fifth new solar array at the International Space Station

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Georgina Torbet
Space
Georgina Torbet
Astronaut on spacewalk

How to watch two U.S. astronauts on a spacewalk at the ISS on Friday

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on Monday, June 5, 2023.

A SpaceX Dragon spaceship is carrying lots of fresh fruit to ISS

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
Earth from space.

New space record set for crew in Earth orbit

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
The ISS crew on May 22, 2023.

The space station is getting crowded again

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

How to watch NASA’s private mission arrive at space station

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
SpaceX's rocket on the launch pad for the crewed Ax-2 mission.

How to watch NASA’s all-private crew launch to the ISS on Sunday

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Trevor Mogg
Space
Trevor Mogg
Axiom Space's Ax-2 crew.

NASA readies for its second all-private mission to ISS

The second all-private mission to the International Space Station is expected to blast off from U.S. soil later this month.
Trevor Mogg
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

Four space station astronauts just took Crew Dragon ‘for a spin’

Four crewmembers at the International Space Station successfully completed a mission on Saturday to move the Crew Dragon Endeavour to a new docking port.
Trevor Mogg
nasa announces breakthrough in search for iss air leak space station

Watch a cosmonaut hurl a piece of ISS garbage into the abyss

Watch as Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev launches a 5-kilogram piece of redundant ISS hardware into the abyss during a spacewalk on Wednesday.
Trevor Mogg
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the ISS.

How to watch SpaceX’s spacecraft take a very short trip on Saturday

NASA is live streaming a 43-minute spacecraft ride between two docking ports at the International Space Station on Saturday, May 6.
Trevor Mogg
The International Space Station’s solar arrays provide power for the orbiting laboratory. NASA will install a total of six new roll out solar arrays in front of the existing arrays at 1A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, and 4B to augment the power. During the Aug. 24 spacewalk, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will install the modification kit on the 4A power channel, where the next new roll out solar array will be installed in 2022.

NASA confirms ISS will host cosmonauts through 2028

Russia's long-term involvement in the ISS looked in doubt last year but NASA has confirmed cosmonauts will continue to visit the orbital outpost through 2028.
Trevor Mogg
30 stunning spacewalk images to celebrate nasas 300th outing 26

How to watch Friday’s historic spacewalk at the ISS

An event at the ISS involves U.S. astronaut Steve Bowen and his UAE counterpart Sultan Alneyadi, who will become the first Arab to do a spacewalk.
Trevor Mogg
Airbus's concept design for the LOOP space station.

Check out this gorgeous space station design from Airbus

Airbus has unveiled a concept design for a gorgeous-looking space station that it says could one day orbit Earth or another planet far away.
Trevor Mogg
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft is seen approaching the Poisk module of the space station prior to docking at 7:58 p.m. EST as the space station was flying 260 miles above northern Mongolia.

A spacecraft at the ISS is about to take a very short trip

Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station are about to take a very short ride aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.
Trevor Mogg
A graphic rendering of the Boeing Starliner orbiting Earth.

NASA and Boeing reveal new date for first crewed Starliner flight

NASA had been hoping to perform the first crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft in April, but the target launch date has now been pushed back.
Trevor Mogg
The damaged Soyuz MS-22 departs the space station for the voyage home.

A crew capsule just landed on Earth. But why was it empty?

A Soyuz crew capsule returned to Earth on Tuesday after spending six months at the International Space Station. But why was it empty?
Trevor Mogg
The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship is pictured docked to the Harmony module's space-facing international docking adapter. Endeavour carried four Axiom Mission 1 astronauts, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Pilot Larry Connor, and Mission Specialists Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy, to the International Space Station for several days of research, education, and commercial activities.

Axiom Space to send third private mission to the International Space Station

Axiom Space will send a third private mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for November this year.
Georgina Torbet
The International Space Station.

ISS forced to steer clear of a functioning satellite

Orbital adjustments by the space station are usually caused by approaching space junk, but earlier this week something else was spotted coming its way.
Trevor Mogg
SpaceX's Crew-5 astronauts.

NASA targets today for Crew-5 astronauts’ journey home

SpaceX's Crew-5 astronauts are aiming to depart the International Space Station later today after spending 154 days in orbit.
Trevor Mogg
An aurora as viewed from the ISS.

Stunning space station video shows glorious aurora over Earth

NASA has released a breathtaking time-lapse video captured from the International Space Station showing a recent aurora over Earth.
Trevor Mogg
A salad created to provide nutrition for astronauts based on foods which can be grown in space.

Researchers design a ‘space salad’ to keep astronauts healthy and happy

Researchers have come up with an astronaut salad, that meets the nutritional needs of astronauts and features foods that could be grown in space.
Georgina Torbet
The space station crew all together following the arrival of SpaceX's Crew-6 in March 2023.

SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts arrive safely at space station

SpaceX's four Crew-6 members have safely boarded the International Space Station following a voyage that lasted about 27 hours.
Trevor Mogg
An aurora as viewed from the ISS.

Astronaut captures ‘unreal’ aurora image from space station

A geomagnetic storm has brought spectacular auroras to parts of Earth in recent days. And to astronauts on the space station, too.
Trevor Mogg
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft is seen approaching the Poisk module of the space station prior to docking at 7:58 p.m. EST as the space station was flying 260 miles above northern Mongolia.

New Russian Soyuz craft arrives at space station to replace leaky one

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has docked at the International Space Station, ready to carry astronauts as a replacement for another Soyuz that leaked last year.
Georgina Torbet
In the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center, NASA astronaut Victor Glover tests collection methods for ISS External Microorganisms, which examines microbes released from the space station to help limit contamination on future exploration missions.

The science experiments that the Crew-6 astronauts will be performing on the ISS

Four astronauts will soon launch to the ISS where they'll perform scientific research, working on a wide variety of experiments.
Georgina Torbet
SpaceX's Crew-6 astronauts.

NASA, SpaceX delay Crew-6 launch to space station

NASA and SpaceX have announced a slight delay to the Crew-6 flight to the International Space Station, which was originally set for early on Sunday.
Trevor Mogg
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon Endurance spacecraft atop, lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022, on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 launch. Inside Endurance are NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, commander; Josh Cassada, pilot; and Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The crew is heading to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff occurred at noon EDT.

How to watch the SpaceX Crew-6 mission launch this week

A crew of four astronauts is about to launch for the International Space Station. Here's how to watch the early stages of the mission live.
Georgina Torbet
The ISS Progress 82 cargo craft is pictured shortly after docking to the space station in October of 2022.

Russian replacement Soyuz scheduled for February 24 launch

Russia's space agency has announced it plans to launch a replacement Soyuz to bring home ISS crew members later this month.
Georgina Torbet
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