International Space Station

Applying tech being used on the ISS toward a future mission to Mars

Voyager Space has entered into an agreement with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to help develop an airlock for the Mars Transit Vehicle.

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This image provided by NASA, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev perform maintenance on the International Space Station on Thursday, July 21, 2022.  Cristoforetti teamed up with Artemyev to work on the International Space Station’s newest robot arm. The 37-foot (11-meter) mechanical limb _ contributed by the European Space Agency _ rocketed into orbit with a Russian lab last July.   (NASA via AP).

Edge computing enables DNA sequencing, lower risk of contaminants on International Space Station

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NASA plows ahead on program to ensure nutrition for astronauts headed to Mars

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FILE - In this Friday, July 8, 2011 file photo, the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis was the 135th and last space shuttle launch for NASA. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Who gets to manage traffic in space?

Which federal agency should take charge of space traffic management? Congress couldn’t figure that one out. So it hired the National Academy of Public…

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Where Space Station goes, so goes Leidos

Nanette Hardin is the division manager of NASA programs at Leidos. In this interview with Federal News Radio’s Tom Temin, Hardin describes some of the…

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A NASA specialist helps U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-07 space capsule about 150 km (80 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, June 3, 2018. A Soyuz space capsule with Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, returning from a mission to the International Space Station landed safely on Sunday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, pool)

Astronaut foresees coming boost in NASA interest

NASA has fostered a less dramatic public image over the years, pursuing research over exploration. But it may be preparing to invade the mainstream once again.

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