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Russia launches fresh crew to ISS on fast-track journey
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos and NASA's Kathleen Rubins launched from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0545 GM...
Fresh crew docks at ISS after record journey
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
Roscosmos confirmed the successful docking of the Soyuz spacecraft in a tweet. The journey "took a record short three hours and three minutes," Russian news wir...
Thomas prepares for Time in space
Oct 14, 2020 (ESA)
This European experiment on the International Space Station investigates the hypothesis that time subjectively speeds up in microgravity and was first run in sp...
Abort and attitude control motors to support six crewed Artemis missions
Oct 13, 2020 (SPX)
These motors will be used for six crewed Artemis missions III-VIII and are the first procured under the new Orion production contract. The Launch Abort System i...
Temperature Increasing on Russian Zvezda Module as Air Continues to Leak From ISS
Oct 13, 2020 (Sputnik)
The temperature is slowly increasing on Zvezda, Vagner told a specialist at the RKA Mission Control Center of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, as broadcast b...
NASA advances plan to commercialize International Space Station
Oct 12, 2020 (UPI)
The commercialization plan also includes the launch of a private habitat and laboratory by 2024 and a project NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Tw...
Homemade space food for Matthias Maurer
Oct 11, 2020 (ESA)
Later this month, chefs from his home region in south-western Germany will whip up a selection of spaceworthy dishes and put these out for public vote. The most...
ISS crew fails to resolve air leak issue in Russia's Zvezda Module with adhesive tape
Oct 11, 2020 (Sputnik)
On Thursday, the Moscow Mission Control Center instructed Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner to use as much tape as possible in Zvezda's intermediate chamber, where ...
Innovative solutions to more reliably recycle space station wastewater
Oct 09, 2020 (SPX)
"As we travel farther from Earth on Artemis missions to the Moon and build toward longer, crewed missions to Mars, it's inevitable we'll need more reliable hard...
Artemis I: demonstrating the capabilities of NASA's United Networks
Oct 09, 2020 (SPX)
Artemis I will demonstrate NASA's networks' comprehensive services for journeys to lunar orbit. The mission requires all three of NASA's major networks to work ...
Chief Engineer, Deborah Crane Talks Commercial Crew Launch
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Crane always loved the arts, science, and was inspired by space exploration at an early age. As she grew to adulthood, those dreams became something of a childh...
NASA, Boeing announce crew changes for Starliner Crew Flight Test
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Wilmore will take the place of Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson on the flight test as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Ferguson decided not to fly for per...
ISS crew analyses dust movement to locate air leak in Russian Module
Oct 07, 2020 (Sputnik)
"Together, we have reviewed the images from GoPro cameras. There is an interesting situation. These images show dust particles flying from left to right, and bo...
From Thales to space
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
Most of them have personally worked on the side of ESA and NASA to provide the habitable pressurized structures for a large number of the International Space St...
Simulated satellite rendezvous at ESA
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
This scene takes place in ESA's GNC Rendezvous, Approach and Landing Simulator, or GRALS, based at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, which is used ...
NASA science and cargo on route to ISS on Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
The spacecraft launched on an Antares rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad 0A at Wallops and is scheduled to arrive at the space stati...
Russian ISS module to be filled with confetti to find microscopic air leak
Oct 05, 2020 (Sputnik)
Cosmonauts aboard the ISS have cut out thin strips of paper and plastic and plan to attach them to the inside walls of Russia's Zvezda service module to try to ...
Russian Cosmonauts to test new system extracting water from urine on ISS
Oct 05, 2020 (Sputnik)
Russian cosmonauts on board of the International Space Station are getting ready to test the effectiveness of a new experimental water recycling system. The new...
ISS Crew instructed to resolve air leak issue before mission change in Mid-October
Oct 05, 2020 (Sputnik)
"The rate of leakage ... is of the order of 0.9 millimetres [on the barometer column per day] from the atmosphere altogether. And in this regard, guys, we canno...
Astronauts close to finding source of air leak at Space Station
Oct 01, 2020 (UPI)
Astronauts first became aware of a leak at the station more than a year ago, but haven't been able to find the specific source. Officials said the size of the l...
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