03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
...Nanoracks and Northrop Grumman to design commercially owned and operated space stations in low Earth orbit (LEO) to replace the International Space Station (ISS), the space agency said in an announcement yesterday. The contracts, worth a total amount...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
..., along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency). The trio departed the International Space Station at 12:50 am EST and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
... mission, noting he was “currently preparing and training” for the flight, which will take him to the International Space Station (ISS) for six months. Meanwhile, NASA announced it has assigned astronaut Shannon Walker to the first operational...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
...assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
... Yuri P. Gidzenko of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Sergei K. Krikalev of Roscosmos left Earth on a journey to the International Space Station on Oct. 31, 2000, this historic first mission would be the start of almost two decades of continuous human...
02 March 2020
Method for sealing Soyuz leak patented by Russian rocket firm
... 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 the manufacturers...
