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SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts has docked at the International Space Station (ISS), in the first crewed mission on a privately built spacecraft purchased by NASA. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience by its crew of three Americans and one Japanese astronaut, docked at 0401GMT 27 hours after launching atop a Falcon 9 rocket from […]
SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule, launched four astronauts on flight to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew dubbed as Resilience, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 0027 GMT on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. “That was one heck of a ride,” astronaut Mike Hopkins said from Crew Dragon […]
The International Space Station (ISS) narrowly avoided a collision with space debris for the third time this year. The ISS used the thrusters of a cargo ship that was docked to the station along with NASA and Russian flight controllers working in tandem in order to avoid colliding with an unknown piece of debris, NASA […]
A Russian astronaut currently in the International Space Station (ISS) has shared an image of what he thought are UFOs while taking pictures of the aurora australis passing near Antarctica and Australia. Ivan Vagner, a Russian cosmonaut at ISS captured a flash of five tiny objects raising the curiousness about the presence of aliens and […]
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have officially arrived at the International Space Station. After a historic launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, the astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft synched up with the space station on Sunday. The spacecraft made a careful approach, easing its way toward its destination over the […]
Three new crew members have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a launch carried out under tight restrictions due to the coronavirus. The Russian Soyuz rocket carrying cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner and Nasa astronaut Chris Cassidy took off from Kazakhstan on Thursday. Pre-launch protocols were changed to prevent the virus being […]
Astronauts on the International Space Station have baked the first cookies in space, but they took far longer than on Earth. The space station’s Italian commander Luca Parmitano acted as baker aided by NASA astronaut Christina Koch for the chocolate-chip cookie experiment. Cookies take around 15-20 minutes to bake on Earth but the astronauts discovered […]
SpaceX delivered muscle-bound “mighty mice,” pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot to the International Space Station on Sunday. The station commander, Italy’s Luca Parmitano, used a large robot arm to grab onto the Dragon three days after its launch from Cape Canaveral. The two spacecraft soared 260 miles (420 kilometers) above the South Pacific […]
Russian news media have reported that the American toilets in the International Space Station (ISS) burst last week. This prompted astronauts to catch several gallons of fluid by towels. Sounds like this is the latest escalation between Russia and US after both nations withdrew from the INF treaty. Sputnik News a mouthpiece close to the Russian […]