Tag: International Space Station

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Microbes found on ISS resembles homes on Earth: Study

Washington: The International Space Station (ISS) has a ‘very diverse’ community of microbes that more closely resembled that of homes than of humans, researchers said on Tuesday. The conclusion is of a citizen science project called Project MERCCURI that analysed bacteria found on 15 locations on the ISS and compared them with samples from homes […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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NASA to launch E. Coli into orbit to study antibiotic resistance

Washington: To study microgravity’s effect on bacterial antibiotic resistance, scientists are set to send E. coli, a common bacterial pathogen linked to urinary tract infections and foodborne illnesses, to the International Space Station (ISS). The E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite (EcAMSat) mission is scheduled to launch to the ISS on Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft on […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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SpaceX launches Chinese experiment, supplies to ISS

Washington: US space firm SpaceX on Saturday launched supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), including an experiment from a Chinese university that will test the effects of space environments on DNA. The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft lifted off on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, Xinhua reported. About […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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NASA astronauts gear up for emergency spacewalk on Tuesday

Washington: Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct an emergency spacewalk on Tuesday to replace a failed data relay box which is part of a system to control key station hardware, NASA has said. Tuesday’s spacewalk, which expected to begin around 8 a.m. EDT and last for about two hours, will be conducted […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
ISS astronauts celebrate New Year's eve 16 times

The crew of Expedition 42 orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station celebrated New Year's eve as many as 16 times as it circles the globe at 28,163 km per hour, NASA said

  • Sunday, 27 June 2021
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Expedition 44 astronauts reach ISS for Mars research

Washington: Three Expedition 44 astronauts representing the US, Russia and Japan arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday to continue key research that advances NASA’s journey to Mars. The spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked at the space station after orbiting Earth four times, the US space agency said […]

  • Saturday, 26 June 2021
ISS crew is set to return to Earth today

Washington: Three Expedition 43 crew members are all set to return to Earth on today after their 199-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Terry Virts and flight engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti will board the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for landing in Kazakhstan at 7.13 p.m. (India time). Virts had ceremoniously handed […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Russian space agency confirms ISS crew's return on June 11

Moscow: The return of the International Space Station (ISS) crew is scheduled for June 11, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov told the media yesterday. “The ISS expedition 42-43 is returning to Earth on June 11,” Komarov said. Three crew members -Russia’s Anton Shkaplerov, European Space Agency’s Samantha Cristoforetti and US astronaut Terry Virts […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
ISS astronauts' return delayed after Russian craft failure

The return of three International Space Station (ISS) astronauts, originally scheduled for later this week, has been delayed due to the failure of a Russian cargo spacecraft

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
NASA test materials to fly on air force space plane

Washington: Building on more than a decade of data from International Space Station (ISS) research, NASA is expanding its materials science research by flying an experiment on the US Air Force X-37B space plane, the US space agency said in a statement. By flying the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space (METIS) investigation on […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
NASA Expedition 42 crew return safely from ISS

Three NASA Expedition 42 crew members returned safely to the Earth on Thursday after a 167-day mission at the International Space Station (ISS) that included several scientific experiments and spacewalks to prepare the ISS for future arrivals by the US commercial space taxis

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon docks with ISS

Washington: The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday on its debut unmanned flight. After making 18 orbits of Earth since its launch, the spacecraft attached to the ISS via “soft capture” at 5:51 a.m. EST (10:51 GMT), Xinhua news agency reported. Flight computers guided the spacecraft […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Russia launches cargo ship to space station

Moscow: Russia on Thursday successfully launched a Progress MS-11 unpiloted cargo resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said in a statement. The launch of the spacecraft by the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket was carried out at 14.01 Moscow time (1101 GMT). The spacecraft, scheduled to dock with the […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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ISS infested with bacteria like gym on Earth: NASA

Washington: A team of NASA researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist has found the surface inside the International Space Station (ISS) is littered with microbes just like in a gym or office on Earth — threatening astronauts’ health at the orbiting laboratory. The knowledge of the composition of the microbial and fungal communities on the ISS can […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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First UAE Astronaut Enters ISS

Dubai: Hazzaa AlMansoori has become the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to enter the International Space Station (ISS) after the Soyuz spacecraft carrying him and two others successfully docked at the ISS. AlMansoori, 35, headed to space with Russian commander Oleg Skripochka and Nasa astronaut Jessica Meir on Wednesday onboard a Soyuz […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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