international space station

A hunk of junk from the International Space Station hurtles back to Earth

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Enlarge / In March 2021, the Worldwide House Station’s robotic arm launched a cargo pallet with 9 expended batteries. NASA A bundle of depleted batteries from the Worldwide House Station careened round Earth for nearly three years earlier than falling out of orbit and plunging again into the environment Friday. A lot of the trash … Read more

The world’s most traveled crew transport spacecraft flies again

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Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with the Crew-8 mission, sending three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut on a six-month expedition on the Worldwide House Station. SpaceX’s oldest Crew Dragon spacecraft launched Sunday night time on its fifth mission to the Worldwide House Station, and engineers are crunching information to see … Read more