NASA has requested proposals from the space industry to build a craft to safely deorbit the International Space Station as part of its planned retirement.
The United States, Japan, Canada and the participating countries of the ESA (European Space Agency) have committed to operating the station…
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule to be launched by NASA in late August
NASA reported that on Saturday, August 28 at 3:37 a.m., a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from a Kennedy Space Center platform, with the cargo capsule at its peak.
The twenty-third commercial supply mission of the laboratory aims to transfer…
Twenty years living in the International Space Station
This November 2 marks 20 years of uninterrupted human presence on the International Space Station, with the arrival in 2000 of Expedition 1, the first long-term in the complex.
The expedition crew consisted of an American commander and two…
NASA will open International Space Station to tourists
NASA will authorize two short missions of private astronauts per year. These trips will last 30 days and up to a dozen astronauts will be able to stay each year in the station, without going out of the space ship.
The agency maintains that…
NASA plans commercial trips to space
Space has always been the subject of curiosity. Going through it and discovering its secrets dressed in a special suit is the dream of thousands of people in the world. To satisfy this fantasy and raise funds before its precarious financial…
First robot with AI flies into space
The robot with artificial intelligence Cimon arrived at the end of June to the International Space Station to join the crew as laboratory assistant. The new space partner, developed by Airbus and IBM, has the ability to see, hear,…