Space Station
So You Wanna Go To Space. Can You Put Up With The Superpower Bacteria?
We all love space here and we're sure, given that thousands of people applied for a one-way trip to Mars,…
ISS Spacewalk Prepares for New Russian Laboratory
On Monday, two Russian cosmonauts conducted a 6-hour, 34-minute spacewalk to prepare for a new Russian module that will be…
3-D Printer Passes Key Step On Road to Space Station
The joke about home renovation projects is it takes at least three trips to the hardware store to finish the…
Get Ready for the ATV-4 Docking with this Fun Music Video
Recall how during a space shuttle mission, the astronauts were awoken each day with music radioed up from Mission Control?…
Chris Hadfield Hangs Up His Astronaut Suit
In a somewhat surprise announcement, Canadian astronaut -- and social media icon -- Chris Hadfield announced his retirement from the…
Is This What a Mars Outpost Will Look Like from Orbit?
This sure looks like a futuristic settlement on the Red Planet, as Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano pondered on Twitter yesterday…
Image Follow-up: Fire Up Your Spacecraft Thrusters!
Here's a follow-up on an interesting image we posted last year, during Don Pettit's stay on the International Space Station…
Welcome to the Space Station Science Garage
What do you get when you combine Mike Massimino, Don Pettit, Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn and some bean bag chairs?…
ESA Launches ‘Albert Einstein’ Cargo Spacecraft to the Space Station
ESA used a little E=mc^2 and launched the Automated Transfer Vehicle-4 (ATV-4) resupply ship, named "Albert Einstein" in honor of…