For the first time in 20 years, a Russian cosmonaut rocketed from the U.S., launching to the International Space Station alongside NASA and Japanese astronauts despite tensions over the war in Ukraine.
Russia-Ukraine war: According to reports, Moscow may take this move over sanctions levied on the country amid Ukraine war.
ISS is modular space station in low earth orbit. It a collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).
Scott Pace, who served as executive secretary of the space council under President Trump and is now the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, said the space station “has been largely isolated” from political events.
The crew launch marked SpaceX's fourth for NASA in 1-1/2 years and the company's fifth passenger flight overall.
Blue Origin said that the new space station Orbital Reef will be habitable for up to 10 people. It will become operational by 2030.
"Shower Shower Hour! Astronauts can’t take showers in space or the water would go everywhere, so I thought I would demonstrate how we keep hair clean on the @Space_Station. The simple things we take for granted on Earth are not so simple in micro-gravity!" NASA astronaut Megan McArthur wrote.
The Dragon is carrying more than 4,800 pounds (2,170 kilograms) of supplies and experiments, and fresh food including avocados, lemons and even ice cream for the space station’s seven astronauts.
Flight controllers regained control using thrusters on other Russian components at the station to right the ship, and it is now stable and safe, NASA said.
Taking to Instagram, NASA shared an image of Tokyo, where Olympic games are being held, showing the city glowing bright with the magic of the Olympics. The image was captured by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet in their eighth spacewalk of the year outside the ISS deployed the new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the far end of the left (port) side of the station's backbone truss structure (P6).
When completed by late 2022, Tianhe is expected to weigh about 66 tons, a fraction the size of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and will weigh about 450 tons when completed.
An uncrewed Russian cargo ship carrying just over one ton of nitrogen, water and propellant to the International Space Station launched from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on Monday.
The cargo Dragon will remain at the space station for a month, before parachuting into the Atlantic with science samples and discarded gear. The crew Dragon will stay up until spring.
Two Russian cosmonauts have conducted a six-hour 48-minute spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for a new module.
As astronauts celebrate the 20th anniversary of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, NASA has said the orbiting laboratory has turned into a world-class facility for research which has conducted thousands of investigations from over 100 different countries.
In a day filled with celestial anomalies, a Russian Cosmonaut has shared an image of a comet taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The image is significant in more ways than one. The cosmonaut, Ivan Vagner, claimed that the comet -- C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) -- is the brightest comet in 7 years. And also, the tail of the comet is quite clearly visible from the image taken by Vagner.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the beginning of a new era in the US space programme.
Among the investigations on which the space station crew performed work during the week of April 20 included "Food Acceptability" which examines the effect of repetitive consumption of the somewhat limited selection of foods available during spaceflight.
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:32 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida.
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