Space station
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Two Russians, American reach space station
Sep 16, 2023In the midst of blazing tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine, two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut launched Friday and docked with the International Space Station. Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and NASA astronaut Loral... -
Chinese astronauts establish a new laboratory on the space station
Jul 27, 2022Monday marked a significant milestone toward the completion of China’s space station by the end of the year as astronauts entered the new lab module for the first time. The station is one of Beijing’s ambitious... -
Rocket blasts off carrying first Chinese crew to new space station
Jun 17, 2021The first astronauts for China’s new space station blasted off Thursday for the country’s most extended crewed mission to date, a landmark step in establishing Beijing as a significant space power. The trio launched on a... -
China lost control of it’s space station and set to fall back to Earth
Sep 21, 2016News Hour: Chinese officials appear to have confirmed what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of its space station. China’s Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about... -
NASA awards contract to increase water recovery on space station
Jun 30, 2016News Hour: NASA has selected Paragon Space Development Corporation, a small business headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, to develop a system that will increase the rate of water recovery from the urine of astronauts aboard the International...