International Space Station (ISS)
The Challenges of Lasers in Space
Since the beginning of the space age, radio waves have been used for communication with spacecraft. But last month, NASA's…
Pew! Pew! Laser On The Space Station Will Beam Video To Earth
Videos will beam to Earth on a laser beam in a technology demonstration coming to the International Space Station soon,…
NASA Infographic: 15 Years of the International Space Station
The first International Space Station component, the Russian Zarya module, was launched 15 years ago today, on November 20, 1998.…
UrtheCast: Cameras for Live Video Views of Planet Earth To Launch Nov. 25
A Canadian camera system aiming to provide near-realtime video views of Earth is readying for a launch from Kazakhstan. If…
Soyuz Lands Safely with Space Station Crew and Olympic Torch
Expedition 37 crew members Karen Nyberg of NASA, Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Luca Parmitano of…
Weekly Space Hangout – November 8, 2013
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Thad Szabo, Scott Lewis, Ian O'Neill, Alan Boyle, Nancy Atkinson, David Dickinson, Jason Major, Matthew Francis,…
Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch
Update: the crew has now arrived safely at the ISS. You can watch the arrival video below. Three new crew…
Best Halloween Costume Ever … IN SPACE!
This really happened, on the International Space Station, on Halloween. Awesome. Follow Luca Parmitano on Twitter
ATV-4 ‘Einstein’ Says Goodbye to the Space Station
The Expedition 37 crew onboard the International Space Station closed the hatch and said goodbye to the ATV-4 "Albert Einstein"…
Video: Spider Flown in Space Has Trouble Readapting to Gravity
Astronauts have said adapting to weightlessness is much easier than readapting to gravity when they returned to Earth. Muscle weakness,…