International Space Station

‘Happy to be there’: What next for the Boeing Starliner crew stranded on the ISS?

‘Happy to be there’: What next for the Boeing Starliner crew stranded on the ISS?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the first crew on Boeing’s Starliner, have been stranded on the ISS. What happens now? ADVERTISEMENT ...

NASA, Boeing Say Starliner And Astronauts To Continue Extended ISS Stay

NASA, Boeing Say Starliner And Astronauts To Continue Extended ISS Stay

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – JULY 29: In this NASA handout, A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with … [+] Boeings CST-100 ...

Is NASA’s Starliner Ready To Come Home? Find Out What’s Next

Is NASA’s Starliner Ready To Come Home? Find Out What’s Next

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Starliner spacecraft on NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port as the International Space ...

See Last Weekend’s Aurora From Space

See Last Weekend’s Aurora From Space

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NOAA’s JPSS Program satellites captured imagery of the stunning auroras that were visible in … [+] locations across the globe on May ...

Bacteria has mutated on the International Space Station into something never seen before on Earth

Bacteria has mutated on the International Space Station into something never seen before on Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Featured Image Credit: Paolo Nespoli – ESA/NASA via Getty Images / ARS/Getty Images 13 different strains of bacterium were found on the ...

Identifies Object That Crashed Into Florida Home

Identifies Object That Crashed Into Florida Home

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Recovered stanchion from the NASA flight support equipment used to mount International Space Station batteries on a cargo pallet. The stanchion survived ...

Nasa ‘shocked’ by how close Russian spacecraft came to hitting satellite

Nasa ‘shocked’ by how close Russian spacecraft came to hitting satellite

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

On Tuesday, Nasa launched its Space Sustainability Strategy, which aims to better map and monitor satellites and debris, and keep orbits as ...

Russian Rocket Launches Astronaut, Cosmonaut, and Flight Attendant to ISS, Days After Glitch

Russian Rocket Launches Astronaut, Cosmonaut, and Flight Attendant to ISS, Days After Glitch

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus ...

Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose space handshake with a Soviet helped thaw the Cold War – obituary

Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose space handshake with a Soviet helped thaw the Cold War – obituary

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The two crews were selected and announced two years ahead of the 1975 flight date, the first time Russia had named cosmonauts ...

Japan To Soon Launch World’s First Wooden Satellite: Know All About It

Japan To Soon Launch World’s First Wooden Satellite: Know All About It

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The LignoSat probe is made of magnolia wood. Japanese scientists have developed one of the world’s most unique spacecraft- a wooden satellite ...