This week marks 20 years since the first inhabitants arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). Since then orbital residential houses have been occupied. Twenty years of direct life in space makes the ISS the ideal “natural laboratory” for understanding how societies work outside of Earth. ISS is a collaboration …
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From the outside, the design of Axiom’s space station looks remarkably similar to the ISS. The cylindrical modules are about 15 meters in diameter and are attached to a giant tinker toy-like station. The reason for this, Suffredini says, is to take advantage of the space industry’s familiarity with the …
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A week after two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station, three crew members were wrapped up in their Soyuz spacecraft and blocked for a burning dive to Earth on Wednesday to close the 196-day mission. The outgoing commander of Expedition 63, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, …
Read More »International Space Station.Image: NASA It was another long night next to the International Space Station, as the crew had to deal with small to large problems that started to sound like a broken record. As always, we have to propose things by saying the crew is safe, and no new …
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A Soyuz spacecraft lift-off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on the way to the ISS. (Photo by NASA / Joel) … [+] Kowski by Getty Images) Getty Images by NASA US astronauts now fly from American soil to the International Space Station (ISS), right? So why is NASA astronaut Russia going to …
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