Warning – this story is loaded with puns and might put you off your breakfast/lunch. During the 1960s and early 1970s, astronauts did not have a formal toilet, just not-nice-to-use faecal bags (US spelling “fecal” bags) and wet wipes, leading some to...
Dragon CRS-29 cargo ship operated by SpaceX on behalf of NASA was launched by a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket at 0128 GMT on 10 November 2023. The launch took place from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – Pad 39A. The uncrewed Dragon re-supply craft is expected to...
NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara exited from the Quest airlock on the International Space Station (ISS), at 1205 GMT on 1 November, to begin US EVA-89 in the fourth all-female spacewalk on the station. Their objectives were to remove an H fixture from...
Roscosmos Expedition 70 cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began their spacewalk (VKD-61) on 25 October. With the Poisk airlock depressurized from 1729 GMT, the cosmonauts opened the hatch at 1749 GMT. Their mission was to install a synthetic radar...
Cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were alerted to a minor alarm on 9 October when they saw snowflakes outside the window of the station. The cause was a coolant leak on the external back-up radiator of the Nauka (MLM-U) module, according to Russian...
The first Plenary Session of the second day here at the IAC 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan, saw a discussion between three companies which are planning commercial space stations or transportation activities in low Earth orbit (LEO). Involved in this session was Axiom Space an...
