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International Space Station

May 2024

  • Boeing's Starliner spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 4 May.

    Boeing hopes to polish its reputation with Starliner crew capsule launch

  • The centre of the Milky Way galaxy, captured by the infrared cameras of Nasa’s Spitzer space telescope.

    ‘We’re in a new era’: the 21st-century space race takes off

April 2024

  • ISS.

    ISS review – Ariana DeBose is ace as third world war sparks space station survival race

    DeBose’s brilliant rookie astronaut navigates this moderately tense thriller about US and Russian crew fighting as Earth blazes below
  • Nasa confirmed that space debris that fell into a Florida man's home was from the International Space Station.

    Nasa confirms metal chunk that crashed into Florida home was space junk

    Cylinder slab that tore through Naples home last month was debris released from International Space Station in 2021
  • space station floating above planet earth

    Metal thought to be International Space Station trash rips through Florida home

    Nasa investigates cylindrical slab believed to be part of discarded battery pallet that tore through Naples house

February 2024

  • The International Space Station

    Russia acknowledges continuing air leak from its segment of space station

    Roscosmos says specialists are monitoring leak, which poses no danger to crew or station
  • The wooden LignoSat satellite [artist’s impression].

    Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution

    The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
  • Oleg Kononenko

    Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko sets world record for most time spent in space

    Russian surpasses compatriot Gennady Padalka after logging more than 878 days at the international space station

December 2023

  • Astronaut on the space station with gardening experiments.

    Lost in space no more: missing tomato found in space station after eight months

    But Nasa and space jocks alike haven’t explained either the mysterious disappearance or reappearance of space-grown fruit

November 2023

  • The moon with a European flag superimposed on it

    Space race 2.0: why Europe is joining the new dash to the moon

    The European Space Agency’s plan to build a cargo vessel that can convert to a crew ship is one giant step in its ambitions to compete with rival lunar exploration programmes
  • Europe from space at night.

    UK to build new satellite to monitor climate crisis and natural disasters

    The pathfinder craft, co-funded by £3m from the UK Space Agency, will provide data to help detect and monitor natural disasters
  • A photo taken in space, with dark black beyond and blue glow of Earth's atmosphere in upper right, of two astronauts in large white costumes facing outside of metal space station.

    Lost in space: astronaut’s toolbag orbits Earth after escaping during spacewalk

    Toolbag not the first item to float into the abyss, after a spatula, a glove and multiple other toolbags

October 2023

  • The view from the International Space Station

    ‘It only makes the news when the toilets stop working’: has the 25-year-old International Space Station been a waste of space?

    The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues
  • Tim Peake in 2018 in ESA uniform

    Tim Peake to quit retirement to lead UK’s first astronaut mission

    British astronaut last flew to International Space Station in 2015 as European Space Agency astronaut
  • The International Space Station.

    Third space station leak in a year prompts doubts about Russia’s programme

    Roscosmos says temperatures in affected unit normal after flakes of frozen coolant seen in live feed

September 2023

  • Astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after getting stuck in space for 371 days – video

    The extended stay in space resulted in American Frank Rubio setting a record for the longest US spaceflight. Russia holds the world record of 437 days, set in the mid-1990s
  • Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio shortly after landing in the Soyuz MS-23 space capsule in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

    Astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after getting stuck in space for more than a year

    Trio had to stay longer on International Space Station after their original return capsule was hit by space junk
    • First cat in space: how a Parisian stray called Félicette was blasted far from Earth

    • Four astronauts from International Space Station splash down to Earth

    • Emirati astronaut to make history after longest-ever Arab space mission – video

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