Communist China is planning to double the size of its space station over the next several years. The plan is part of a larger effort to lure international space missions away from U.S.-led missions when NASA closes its International Space Station (ISS). China plans to expand its station, the Celestial Palace, to six modules from […]
Astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Andrei Fedyaev, and Sultan al-Neyadi are brought out of the capsule carrying them home after they splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean an hour beforehand on Monday. They had been at the International Space Station for the past six months.
In the final step towards completing a permanent space station, China launched its final module. This makes China the third country in the world to send up astronauts and build a space station, apart from the U.S. and Russia.
Is New York City’s mayor tied to the Chinese Communist Party? A report says it related one of his campaign donors to a secret Chinese police station in the city. What should Congress’s next top China priority be after the midterm elections? Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) gives his take. Brazil—the most influential country in South […]
ATLANTA—Tensions in eastern Ukraine and heightened Western fears of a Russian invasion should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.–Russia cooperation in space, the former head of the National Space Council told The Associated Press. Four NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one European astronaut are currently on the space […]
NASA intends to keep operating the International Space Station until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, according to newly published plans outlining its future. Launched in 2000, the space lab has orbited 227 nautical miles above Earth with […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Northrop Grumman’s latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven. The company’s Cygnus cargo ship rocketed away from Virginia’s eastern shore Tuesday. It should reach the International Space Station on Thursday. The 8,200-pound (3,700-kilogram) shipment includes fresh apples, tomatoes and kiwi, along with a pizza kit and cheese smorgasbord for the seven station […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first time the company has two capsules in orbit at the same time. The Dragon—packed with Christmas treats and presents — should reach the space station on Monday, joining the Dragon that delivered […]
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have successfully disembarked the SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule and entered the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the space station at 10:16 a.m. ET Sunday morning after launching from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center Saturday and traveling 19 hours. After making initial contact with the ISS, […]
The communal spirit of Thanksgiving made its way as far as the International Space Station on Wednesday, Nov. 27, when the three NASA astronauts on board displayed some of the special food they will enjoy to mark the annual American holiday. Astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan removed from their outer wrappers some […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A private cargo ship brought the makings of an Easter feast to the International Space Station on April 19, along with mice and little flying robots. Space station astronaut Anne McClain used a robot arm to capture Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule as they soared 258 miles (415 kilometers) above France. The Cygnus and […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking astronauts tackled battery and cable work outside the International Space Station on April 8. It was the third spacewalk in just 2 ½ weeks for the space station crew. NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques hustled through their part in battery swap-outs that began last month. “All right, you […]
A Soyuz rocket docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS). On Monday, Dec.3, an international crew safely voyaged with the Russian-made rocket to the ISS. This is after a mission in October that was aborted due to rocket malfunction. At approximately 19:40 GMT, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, and the Canadian Space […]
TOKYO—An unmanned Japanese space capsule is headed to the International Space Station filled with cargo including food, experiments and new batteries. The craft was launched on Sept. 23th at 2:52 a.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. It will take 4 ½ days to reach the space station. The launch was delayed for […]
Waking from a weightless sleep to the words “help find the air leak” might sound like an astronaut’s worst nightmare. But according to NASA, the air leak, discovered as the astronauts slept on the International Space Station, is nothing to worry about. At about 7 p.m. on Aug. 29, flight controllers on the ground in Houston […]
A 19,000-pound space station that the Chinese regime admits to having lost control of in 2016 will crash land somewhere on Earth this March, experts predicted. The Tiangong-1 space station was launched in September 2011. It is China’s first space station. It hosted manned space missions twice in its lifetime. Chinese taikonauts, in the six […]
An out-of-control unmanned Chinese space station is expected to plummet to Earth in the next coming months. But where the parts of the Tiangong-1 that survive reentry will eventually crash-land on the Earth remains unconfirmed. It is expected that between 10 to 40 percent of its mass will survive reentry. The 8.5-metric ton space station is […]
A trio of U.S. and Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and flight engineers Norishige Kanai of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Scott Tingle of NASA lifted off from the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)—A supply ship bearing John Glenn’s name arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday. Astronauts used the station’s big robot arm to grab the capsule, as the craft flew 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Germany. NASA’s commercial shipper, Orbital ATK, named the spacecraft the S.S. John Glenn in honor of […]
