November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... be taken over by the private sector and with a desire to focus public funding towards further space exploration, the US Congress made the International Space Station (ISS) a national lab. SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the orbiting...
12 February 2018
Dream Chaser's first mission to ISS gets NASA go-ahead
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has been given formal approval by NASA to provide cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), with an anticipated launch window for late 2020. The resupply mission will be the first of six, as the ...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... Crew Program. Following the retirement of the shuttle, US astronauts have been hitching a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft which lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. However after 2019...
19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
... Roscosmos sends up some cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday 22 August, it not only...will join the Russian crew currently stationed at the ISS to continue the tests of "the space-designated anthropomorphous system," said Dmitry ...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
...-100 Starliner, under the Commercial Crew Program. Both capsules are meant to carry crew members to the International Space Station (ISS) and back. NASA plans to buy the flights from each company as a service rather than owning the...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
... to the International Space Station 5 October on board a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, for a 12 day stay to film segments for a movie. Making his fourth flight into space, veteran Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a former Commander of the ISS, will...
