Science news articles about 'space station'

The International Space Station's massive Japanese lab is ready to launch.

Space station prototype passes orbital milestone.

Astronauts are using a Star Trek tricorder-like device to keep track of microscopic life forms onboard the International Space Station.

International Space Station crews soon will have a new water reclamation system that will recycle wastewater, allowing up to six crew members to live aboard the orbiting laboratory.

A new Russian cargo ship launched toward the space station Wednesday.

Japan is about to roll out the Lexus of space station labs, a whopper in size and sophistication.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Cosmonaut-plumber Oleg Kononenko tackled the critical job of fixing the sole toilet aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday, with apparently successful results.

Researchers hope to send an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) by the middle of the next decade that would pave the way for transcontinental transmission of secret messages encoded ...

... into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing. Such transistors could prove helpful on long space missions, such ...

... outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing. The transistors, which used a new kind of gate dielectric material ...

... ) support, a symposium entitled ‘Celebrating Ten Years of the International Space Station’, to be held at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters (7, place de Fontenoy) on 9/10 July.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station prepared for a spacewalk on Thursday to remove an explosive bolt from their Soyuz capsule in hopes of fixing a ...

... (Reuters) - The commander and lead engineer aboard the International Space Station left the outpost on Tuesday for a 5-1/2-hour spacewalk to prepare another parking spot for ...

... completion of ISS assembly, the Heads of Agency reaffirmed their common interest in utilising the space station to its full capacity for a period meaningful for stakeholders and users. The Partners ...

The International Space Station is due for some new gear that will double its crew size.