International Space Station

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has broken the world record for the most cumulative time spent in space, Russia’s space agency reported.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as the dominant force in the rocket-launch market, handling a staggering 88 percent of customer flights from American launch sites in the first half of 2023. One former Air Force space operations officer explains, “The fact is that the competition can’t field anything right now and that makes SpaceX a de facto monopoly.”

The director of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday that he expects Moscow to end its participation in the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.

Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Friday that he will pitch a joint project for a moon landing to his counterparts in China next month.

Russia has warned that sanctions on its aerospace industry could result in the International Space Station (ISS) falling into an “uncontrolled deorbit” and smashing into the United States or Europe, potentially with the force of a small nuclear bomb. 

NASA has released a new statement outlining how it plans to operate the International Space Station until 2030. It will then be destroyed by plummeting the station out of orbit into a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The agency plans to transition operations to commercial space stations in the future.

Russia’s space agency announced plans on Thursday to send a film crew to the International Space Station (ISS) in October as part of its efforts to become the first nation to shoot a fictional movie in space.

Astronauts Chris Cassidy, Bob Behnken, and Doug Hurley held a press conference with reporters from the International Space Station on Monday.

Veteran astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are on their way to the International Space Station after a successful launch on Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center as Mother Nature cooperated with favorable weather conditions.

On Wednesday, for the first time in almost a decade, two American astronauts will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed that it is working on a film project featuring Tom Cruise that will be filmed onboard the International Space Station (ISS). 

President Donald Trump has made space exploration a priority of his administration, and for the first time in almost a decade, a space flight will depart from Florida on May 27.

Jessica Meir posted a picture on Sunday with a holiday message from the best possible vantage for a worldwide view of the holiday season.

The Wall Street Journal claims that SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s optimism on his timeline to take humans to Mars stands in stark contrast with the extended delays SpaceX has suffered on a NASA project aimed at transporting astronauts to the international space station.

The first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be launched into space Wednesday with a strict set of Islamic guidelines telling him how to practise his faith on the International Space Station.

Prosecutors have reportedly uncovered almost $1.6 billion rubles ($24.6 million) lost to corruption in the Russian space program over the past five years. “There’s no end in sight, billions are stolen,” chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin ruefully declared on Wednesday.

A spacecraft launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia last week has reached in the International Space Station with special supplies just in time for Easter weekend.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine warned on Monday that India’s test of an anti-satellite weapon created a large cloud of orbital debris that could endanger the International Space Station (ISS), although the worst period of vulnerability appears to have passed.

NASA has reportedly warning SpaceX and Boeing of design safety concerns for their competing launch systems, which could threaten the success of the U.S. space program.

A Falcon 9 rocket transported a bountiful holiday spread from Cape Canaveral to workers aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday.

The first two astronauts have been selected by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to ready for a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai’s ruler said Monday.

NASA is reportedly in talks with a number of companies to turn the International Space Station into a commercial space laboratory.

NASA will have to pay more money for less cargo delivery to the International Space Station in the 2020’s due to price increases from SpaceX.

The Micro-11 mission will test the performance of sperm in microgravity aboard the International Space Station for the first time.

Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov claims that the bacteria he swabbed from the exterior of the International Space Station did not come from Earth.

CEO Elon Musk announced Friday that SpaceX is going all-in for interplanetary commuting to Mars by developing its next-generation rocket, called BFR (short for Big F***king Rocket).

Recent experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have produced new and disturbing revelations about bacteria’s behavior outside of our atmosphere.

The International Space Station is set to carry artificial organs in an attempt to tackle five different medical issues, according to a report.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin spoke at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington, D.C. this week where he urged NASA to defund the International Space Station in order to dedicate more resources to exploring Mars.

One small step for man, one giant leap for…Roger Goodell?

President Donald Trump spoke with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Monday, as one of them, Peggy Whitson, set the U.S. record for most cumulative days in space.

After a delay of about a month, the tiny Israeli Duchifat 2 satellite was launched Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite, a project of the Israeli Space Agency in the Ministry of Science and the Herzliya Municipality, was launched on the Atlas 5 launcher to the International Space Station.

Two American astronauts have already cast their vote in the 2016 US Presidential Election from the International Space Station via electronic absentee ballot.

A new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department released by Judicial Watch on Monday reveals that a former aide to Bill Clinton asked State to accommodate a request from Clinton Foundation supporter and U2 lead singer Bono.

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams uploaded a photograph of Israel as seen from the International Space Station, writing that he was “fascinated” by the view of “biblical history.”

By cutting future commercial space flight costs by a third with their successful landing of a spent first-stage vehicle on a barge in the Atlantic, SpaceX just ignited an economic space boom that will be the defining feature of the