There is no walk in the park a year in space. Ask American astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. Her DNA, telomeres, and gut microbiome were altered by her long stay in space, she lost bone density, and still had pain …
Read More »After 20 years in orbit, ISS is nearing retirement. Here’s what it could change
On Monday, the world celebrates 20 years of continuous human presence in space. Astronauts and cosmonauts have been hovering over the International Space Station since November 2, 2000. In these 7,300 days, U.S. The $ 1 billion billion orbital laboratory has hosted 241 people from 19 countries and conducted more …
Read More »Oxygen supply to ISS just failed, but everyone is so far away
The oxygen supply system has failed in the module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) but there is no danger to the crew, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. The oxygen supply system on the Zvezda module at the Orbital Lab failed late Wednesday …
Read More »The latest Soyuz launches deliver ISS crew in just 3 hours! It was taking days
A three-person crew on Wednesday successfully reached the International Space Station on a Russian rocket on Wednesday morning after the fastest journey of barely three hours from Earth. For the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the mission of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian astronauts and a NASA astronaut was crucial, while …
Read More »Roscosmos says the space station air leak has finally separated further
On Tuesday, September 29, the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos) announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had found the source of a suspicious leak. The crew of the expedition – NASA astronaut and commander Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Evan Wagner – had been …
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