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Bigelow Space Operations will begin to sell the space station
Bigelow Space Company, known for creating inflatable module BEAM, which is 2016, work on the ISS, will provide commercial manufacturing space station which is going to be sold to NASA, other national space agencies and even privat...
In 2019 the ISS will be a private research module
Airbus and the European space Agency have signed an agreement under which aircraft the company will invest in the development of the research platform Bartolomeo 40 million euros and ESA will deliver the finished module into orbit...
The U.S. government wants to force NASA to stop supporting the ISS by 2025
the administration of the President of the United States Donald trump is going to sign a decree on the termination of the support program of the International space station by 2025. About it reports the portal the Verge, familiar ...
Space truck Dragon from SpaceX for the second time returned from orbit to Earth
After a month in orbit, the U.S. space truck Dragon, owned by the company SpaceX, returned to earth. Recall that the truck has already been to space, but the second return, he moved well, smoothly sitting on the water in the Pacif...
On the ISS the premiere of the new film of the Saga "Star wars"
the Inhabitants of planet Earth were able to watch a movie 9 Dec (premiere in Russia took place on 14 December). But the residents of the International space station the new movies are not available so quickly. Think you know what...
Russia wants to turn the ISS into a hotel for wealthy tourists
According to the latest data, for the existence of the space industry in orbit was visited only by 559 people. However, after a few years this figure can increase. All dreaming of space tourism. SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origi...
New ISS crew launched from Baikonur rocket "Soyuz-FG"
booster «the Union-FG» with the manned spacecraft «Union, MS-07» and a new crew was launched from Baikonur to International space station (ISS), RIA Novosti reported. On Board «Union» are the astrona...
#video | the Astronauts made pizza on Board the ISS
During his stay aboard the International space station crew members conduct a lot of experiments in weightlessness. This study of survival and life processes of flora and fauna, and the synthesis of various chemical compounds, and...
Boeing began to prepare the rocket for its "space taxi"
Aerospace Boeing began Assembly of the rocket Atlas V, designed to deliver astronauts and cargo to the ISS on Board the new device CST-100 Cockpit that Atlas V will be put in orbit. Now the main vehicle delivering astronauts to t...
Supercomputer Hewlett-Packard have experienced in space
a Month ago at the ISS in the cargo hold of the cargo ship Dragon has arrived SpaceBourne supercomputer, developed jointly by NASA and Hewlett-Packard. It was created in order to learn how such high-tech equipment will behave in s...
Cargo ship Dragon returned from the ISS to Earth
the Cargo ship Dragon, owned by SpaceX, after a month spent on the International space station successfully returned to Earth. According to information posted on Twitter, SpaceX, ISS, the ship undocked at 11.47 Moscow time and sta...
The ISS crew hid in the shelter from solar flares
Astronauts from the International space station on the tenth of September, had for some time to hide in a special shelter because of the danger associated with the outbreak in the Sun — this was stated by the head of the res...
HP Enterprise will send to the ISS supercomputer
Developed by HP and NASA supercomputer Spaceborne Computer operating on «Linux», going to deliver to the ISS using SpaceX rockets next Monday — according to Techcrunch. There, according to representatives of NASA a...
The spacecraft "Soyuz MS-05" delivered on MKS new crew
the spacecraft «Union MS-05» 00.55 Moscow time, successfully docked to a small research module «Dawn» related to the Russian segment of the ISS. The spacecraft delivered into orbit the participants of the long ...
ISS has launched the first flexible solar panel
typically, solar panels are made up of many photovoltaic modules. The us space Agency NASA last Sunday spent in earth orbit the first of its kind experiment: using the manipulator Canadarm-2 was deployed on an experimental flexibl...
Chinese space station can become an international
that the Chinese space station may become international, said in an interview with RIA «news» Director of the Department of international cooperation China national space administration Xu Yansun. Now in orbit is a sma...
Cargo ship Dragon arrived at the ISS
Dragon Spacecraft aboard the rocket, the Falcon 9 in the night from Saturday to Sunday, successfully arrived at the ISS, after which the station crew completed the takeover and began the docking, — the press service of NASA....
NASA decided to abandon the ISS and focus on Mars
the American space Agency NASA has declared the need to reduce funding of the International space station to 2024 and redirect these funds to develop programs for training humans to Mars. "the ISS for NASA is a very serious issue...
Manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-04" successfully docked to the ISS
the Press service of the state Corporation «Roskosmos» reports that the docking of the space ship "Soyuz MS-04" with the International space station was successful. The ship was moored to the module «Search», w...
ISS has proposed to turn to the hotel for space tourists
General Director of rocket and space Corporation Energia Vladimir Solntsev shared his thoughts about the fate of unused Russian modules of the International space station and offered to use them as space hotels. «MKS is load...