Stories about life and business about NASA’s orbiting lab.
The space community has long known that the ISS agreement has a 2030 expiration date. But this year, headlines about the end of the station—and debates about America’s presence in LEO—have shifted the focus beyond 2030 to the companies building Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) vying to be the station’s successor.
After making headlines for a troubled crew flight test that ended last year, as well as two uncrewed flight tests in 2019 and 2022 that did not meet expectations, the Boeing capsule is trying to shed its negative reputation.
The ISS is about to get a new visitor.
Starlab’s primary structure is planned to be about 8 m in diameter, just smaller than the core stage of the 8.4 m diameter SLS rocket.
Add astronaut to the long list of jobs at risk of being displaced by AI.
Many good ideas are hatched over a beer. One is heading to space this afternoon.
Honda will put its decades of work on hydrogen fuel cell technologies to the test in orbit.
NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick spent nearly eight months aboard the ISS—and he has the photos to prove it.
During the six-week mission, Auxilium demonstrated how its 3D bioprinter can produce a range of medical devices without the burden of gravity.
Kall Morris Inc., a Michigan-based debris removal startup, became the first US entity to capture an uncontrolled object in space during a demo mission to the ISS.
Axiom Space is reshuffling its space station module deployment plan at NASA’s request, installing a power module on the ISS in early 2027 before its habitat module.
SpaceX will pause Falcon 9 launches after an anomaly.
