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How the International Space Station Works: Living and Working in SpaceThe International Space Station (ISS) is one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration, providing a unique platform for research, international cooperation, and living in low Earth orbit.
Students in Southern Florida will have the chance Monday, July 14 to hear astronauts on the International Space Station answer prerecorded questions.
Until the air leak detected on the ISS' Russian segment is resolved, NASA has opted not to send any other people to dock at the station.
The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station train inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.
Shukla received the golden pin in recognition of having flown to space and was designated orbital flight number 634 -- making him the 634th person to travel around Earth in a spacecraft. India's first astronaut, Rakesh Sharma, held flight number 138, while Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space, was 366.
IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), is set to return to Earth tomorrow, July 14, along with his crew from Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4).
After several postponed launches, Axiom Space's four private astronauts are finally on their way to the International Space Station.
Space & Spaceflight ISS Conference Scrapped as NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Crew and Cargo The agency is facing budgetary constraints that might affect operations aboard the ISS.
The Lucknow-born Shukla, former NASA astronaut Mission Commander Peggy Whitson, Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary are part of the Axiom-4 mission that marks the return to space for the three nations.
SpaceX SpaceX has successfully launched four crewmembers to the International Space Station (ISS) in Axiom Space’s privately funded Ax-4 mission. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon ...