International Space Station

Sunita Williams stranded in space after NASA delays Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth indefinitely, know why

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Indian-origin Sunita Williams is likely to stay in space for a few more days, as NASA has further postponed the Boeing Starliner’s ...

Unraveling Helium Leaks and Thruster Troubles

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...

NASA Experiment With Fire in Space Ends When Entire Spacecraft Burns Up

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA has officially bid adieu to its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire), fittingly having the last one burn up in the Earth’s ...