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Stranded Astronauts Face Rising Threat of Space Debris in Orbit
Could a piece of debris no larger than a fingernail derail an entire manned space mission? For three Chinese astronauts ...
Through the most recent mission, STS-130 in February 2010, the shuttle has taken 788 people to orbit (“people” includes repeat fliers—so Franklin Chang Diaz’s seven flights would count as seven people ...
On November 2, 2000, the International Space Station welcomed its first long-term residents: NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and ...
The ISS in 2000 bore little resemblance to today's sprawling outpost. Its iconic solar arrays had yet to arrive, and the ...
The CZ-2F Y21 vehicle was rolled out to the launch pad on October 24. This is currently China’s only crew-rated launch ...
The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...
Since their arrival, there have always been people on the ISS, a continuous presence that is by far the longest in the history of spaceflight. NASA had planned to celebrate 25 years of humans on the ...
Humans have continuously inhabited the International Space Station since November 2, 2000. NASA plans to deorbit the ISS in 2030, transitioning to commercially owned space stations. Private companies ...
By 2030, the iconic ISS – where the world's astronauts have lived, worked and gazed upon the cosmos for more than two decades ...
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