NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will take command of the orbiting outpost as Expedition 74 begins with the undocking of Soyuz MS-27 on Monday, Dec. 8. The International Space Station is set to be de-orbited around 2030 or soon thereafter.
China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The Shenzhou-20 capsule will carry no crew…
China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response option for any new crisis following the Shenzhou-20 incident.
Scientists have launched COLIS, a special laboratory aboard the International Space Station designed to study how everyday materials like sunscreens, mayonnaise, and medications behave in near zero gravity. Researchers discovered that…
China’s Shenzhou-21 crew is scheduled to carry out their first extravehicular activity in the coming days the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Thursday. Since entering the China Space Station complex on November 1 (Beijing time),…
Teddington Police Station (TPS) has lain derelict since it was closed in 2021, while Park Road Surgery, just around the corner, is in desperate need of space. Munira spoke to BBC London about her campaign to sell TPS for the benefit of the…
A picture of Makkah taken from space has captured the Kaaba shining like a bright light. It was captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit. Pettit recently returned from the International Space Station (ISS) and shared the image on his social…
The International Space Station just hit a new milestone, with every one of its eight docking ports full for the first time ever, according to NASA officials . The crowded house comes after the arrival of three new crew members—NASA's…
For the first time in the history of the International Space Station, all eight of its docking ports are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft on the Earth-facing port of the Unity module.…
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for the last quarter of a century. But it was only this week that all eight of its docking ports were filled at the same time. The spacecraft currently docked at the orbital…
On November 27, Russia launched a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. Since then, news articles are claiming that Moscow has accidentally destroyed its only launch pad capable of sending humans into space. According to experts…
All eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied by visiting spacecraft, marking a milestone for crewed spaceflight.