Space Station

Double Spaceship Sighting Alert — and Last Chance to See Endeavour in Orbit

[/caption] UPDATE: And we have a sighting! Beth Katz from Pennsylvania in the US sent us this image,an 8 second…

13 years ago

Fuel Droplet Burning in Space is Psychedelic, Man

[/caption] Dude! This awesome image looks like a psychedelic 1970's flashback. But is is actually a droplet of fuel burning…

13 years ago

Soyuz Crew Lands Safely

[/caption] The Expedition 27 crew of Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman landed upright in…

13 years ago

Miles O’Brien Talks Live with Shuttle/Station Crew

Miles O'Brien, now with PBS NewHour did a live interview with a few members of the STS-134 crew, along with…

13 years ago

AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe

The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…

13 years ago

Endeavour Docks at Space Station

Space shuttle Endeavour docked for the final time at the International Space Station carrying six astronauts and the long-anticipated Alpha…

13 years ago

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…

13 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…

14 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…

14 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…

14 years ago