Chocolate mousse in space is more important than you think
ESA/NASA Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) keep a busy schedule during their six-month stints in orbit. Most of their time is taken up with carrying out scientific…
NASA’s Frank Rubio has just done something very unusual in space
Frank Rubio aboard the space station. NASA NASA astronaut Frank Rubio marked one whole year in space on Thursday. It was never meant to be that way, but a coolant…
NASA Calls on Commercial Partners to Design a Spacecraft to Deorbit the ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 24 years, hosting crews of astronauts and running experiments in the microgravity environment. By 2030, however, the space station’s reign…
‘I Would Have Declined’: NASA’s Frank Rubio Reflects on Unintended Year in Space
Despite holding the title for the longest stint in space by a NASA astronaut, Frank Rubio would have rather not spent all that extra time in low Earth orbit and…
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth
After manufacturing crystals of an HIV drug in space, the first orbital factory is stuck in orbit after being denied reentry back to Earth due to safety concerns. Taking out…
NASA astronaut on first mission arrives safely at space station
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub have arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The trio blasted off…
NASA astronaut describes record-breaking space stay as an ‘incredible challenge’
With just a couple more weeks of his record-breaking space mission remaining, astronaut Frank Rubio got to chat with NASA chief Bill Nelson and his deputy, Pam Melroy on Wednesday.…
Space Kombucha Could Help Sustain Future Colonies on Mars
A microscopic view of cells in space, where the red fluorescence shows photosynthetic pigments, while white-blue indicates the nucleoids – the cell’s control centers.Image: University of Rome and DLR If…
NASA’s Frank Rubio just set a space record aboard the ISS
When NASA astronaut Frank Rubio launched to space in September last year, he became the first Salvadoran-American to head to orbit. And now, 355 days later, Rubio has just set…
NASA Wants a Giant Inflatable Bag to Collect and Throw Out Space Junk
A capture bag that will be used to collect space junk in orbit.Screenshot: TransAstra Picking up the trash in space could be as easy as stuffing pieces of defunct spacecraft…