NASA’s goal of returning to the moon should see a major push in early 2019, when the agency awards its first contract for the lunar ‘Gateway’ program. Continue reading
Category Archives: ISS
NASA taking help from students to decide which plants to grow in space
NASA has partnered with The Fairchild Challenge — an annual standards-based environmental outreach programme which Continue reading
NASA has successfully grown plants in space
In a significant breakthrough, NASA has documented the first growth in its newly installed Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) on Wednesday. The APH was installed at the international space station (ISS) in 2017, and this growth of Continue reading
NASA instrument on ISS to track the sun
The Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) became fully operational this month, after it was installed on the International Space Station. Continue reading
trump wants moon , cuts ISS funding and more
The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead. Under President Donald Trump’s 2019 proposed budget released Monday, US government funding for the space station would end by 2025. Continue reading
Astronauts play badminton in space
If you believe astronauts have a boring job in space, think again. It’s not all work, work, work for the people aboard the International Space Station (ISS). They also indulge in activities like playing badminton and performing stunts with a vacuum cleaner. Continue reading
NASA astronauts complete 2018’s first Spacewalk
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) successfully wrapped up the year’s first spacewalk on Tuesday, January 23.
Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle replaced a Latching End Effector (LEE) on the station’s robotic Continue reading
Astronaut grows 9 cm in space
Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai said on Twitter that he is 3-and-a-half inches taller since arriving at the International Space Station on Dec. 19. Weightlessness has that effect: Without gravitational force compressing the spine, vertebrae relax and temporarily expand, like a coiled spring unspooled from the top. Continue reading