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‘It’s like doing an Arctic expedition with German scientists in 1943’: life on the International Space Station at a time of war

August 26, 2023
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| ESA, ISS, Russia, Ukraine

By Stephen Walker, Published by The Guardian, 26 August 2023 On the ISS, astronauts from Russia and the west share a craft the size of a large family home. So what happened when Moscow started a conflict 250 miles below on Earth? One evening in January 2015, Terry Virts, a

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Smaller rockets, such as Blue Origin's Blue Shepard, can run entirely on the clean liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. (Image credit: Blue Origin)

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Tests Spew Enough Methane to be Spotted From Space

August 23, 2023
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| Blue Origin, Environmental Effects, ISS

By Frank Landymore, Published by The Byte, 23 August 2023 Nothing to sneeze at! Gassed Up Things are getting kind of gassy at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space tourism firm. Case in point, Bloomberg reports that a Blue Origin facility in West Texas is regularly emitting so much methane during

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Space mining company developing nuclear reactor and more for moon projects

August 16, 2023
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| Artemis, ISS, Mining, Moon missions

By Elizabeth Howell, Published by Space.com, 16 August 2023 NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy. Our small steps back to the moon today could build a rich new industry. There's lots of buzz about mining the moon. Satellites have spotted water at the lunar south pole.

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Space race: How the US and China are locked in a battle to become superior in space

June 16, 2023
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| China, ISS, Moon missions, NASA, Spending

By Rachel Schike, Published by Washington Examiner, 16 June 2023 The United States and China, two of the world's largest superpowers, are locked in a battle to achieve supremacy in the final frontier — space. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China has stepped forward to challenge the U.S.

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Has the science on NASA’s International Space Station been worth the money?

March 26, 2023
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| ISS, Spending

By Mark R. Whittington, Published by The Hill, 26 March 2023 The political question of whether the International Space Station (ISS) was worth the money was answered when an amendment to kill the orbiting space lab failed by one vote in the House of Representatives in 1993. Ironically, the late

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NASA planning to spend up to $1 billion on space station deorbit module

March 13, 2023
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| Artemis, ISS, NASA, Space Debris, Spending

By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 13 March 2023 WASHINGTON — NASA is projecting spending nearly $1 billion on a tug to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of the decade to provide redundancy for safely disposing of the station. NASA released additional details March 13 about its

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US Space Force unit to monitor region beyond Earth’s geosynchronous orbit

April 23, 2022
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| ISS, Moon missions, NASA, Space Force

By Katyanna Quach, Published by The Register, 23 April 2022 The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder. Commander of the 18th SDS, Lt. Col. Matt

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SpaceX capsule carrying businessmen that paid $55M each docks at space station

April 9, 2022
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| Axiom Space, ISS, Space Tourism, SpaceX

By Julia Musto, Published by Fox Business, 9 April 2022 The historic Axiom 1 mission crew docked to the International Space Station's (ISS) Harmony module space-facing port on Saturday morning following delays.  Soft capture was confirmed at 8:29 a.m. ET and docking was reported as "complete" at 8:41 a.m. ET.

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