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 …
Read More »This week, Mars will be closest to Earth for another 15 years
Mars, our second closest cosmic cousin, has been in our collective imagination for decades. Between the fantasies of visiting Mars and the promise of water under its icy surface, Mars doesn’t have to do much to stay in our collective good books. But very soon, Mars is moving not only …
Read More »We are finally getting closer to solving the mystery of the perplexing power of glass
Windowpen or mess can disintegrate quite easily, but if we consider its molecular make-up, solid glass is much stiffer and stronger than it should be technically. Now, scientists have come closer to revealing the source of this secret power. Despite the lack of a traditionally mandated structure, using a newly …
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