SpaceX is planning to fire the engines of its Dragon cargo spacecraft this week, which is currently docked to the ...
The first-ever wooden satellite, called LignoSat, arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo ...
Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize shortlisted novel Orbital is set inside an International Space Station-like vessel circling 250 miles above Earth. It looks at a day-in-the-life of the crew, ...
As the ISS ages and is eventually decommissioned, private companies may operate the orbital platforms of the future.
Dragon’s success eliminates US reliance on Russia for operation of the space station, should that partnership dissolve.
Axiom Space of Houston is considering using launch vehicles from India and Europe to help build its commercial space station ...
China has been operating its completed Tiangong space station for almost two years and is now looking to expand its ...
That’s where Anna Morgenthaler, an operational psychologist who works at NASA in its behavioral health and performance group, ...
“It’s just not okay.” Deorbiting the space station is the most complicated get-out-of-space operation that will happen for the foreseeable future because the ISS is the largest humanmade ...
SpaceX's Dragon performed an orbital boost maneuver for the ISS; a first for the spacecraft, and a small step toward the space station's ultimate doom.
In “Orbital,” Samantha Harvey explores what truly constitutes the human experience through six astronauts orbiting Earth.
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is ...