Space Station

Mississippi River Flooding As Seen from the Space Station

[/caption] Big Muddy, as the Mississippi River is known, looks especially big and muddy these days with record flooding occurring…

11 years ago

Astronaut On Board ISS Gets Word of Mother’s Death

[/caption] ISS astronaut Paolo Nespoli from Italy received some sad news while in orbit on the International Space Station: his…

11 years ago

Gallery: 10 Years of Canadarm2, Construction Crane in Space

[/caption] On April 19, 2001, space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-100 mission launched to the space station, and in the payload bay…

11 years ago

‘Gagarin’ Launches to Space Station

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launching from the very same launch pad used by Yuri Gagarin when he became the first…

11 years ago

Double Spaceship Sighting Alert – and last chance to see Discovery in orbit

[/caption] UPDATE: We've already got a sighting! The image above was taken this evening in the UK by science writer…

11 years ago

Keep Your Cool! New Experiment Will Help Understand Heat Transfer in Space

[/caption] From a NASA news release: It may seem illogical, but boiling is a very efficient way to cool engineering…

11 years ago

STS-133 Launches on Historic Final Mission for Shuttle Discovery

[/caption] Overcoming a down-to the-last second problem, space shuttle Discovery made history today, launching on its final mission to orbit.…

11 years ago

NASA Sets STS-133 Launch for February 24

[/caption] Following a Flight Readiness Review today, NASA and Space Shuttle Program managers announced that space shuttle Discovery is ready…

11 years ago

NASA Weighs Risks of Unique Photo-Op at Space Station

[/caption] If all goes well and space shuttle Discovery arrives at the International Space Station the end of February, there…

11 years ago

ATV Successfully Launches to Space Station

Here's a chance to practice your French countdown skills: watch today's successful launch of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer…

11 years ago