US News Astronauts who were supposed to take 8-day ISS trip may be stranded until 2025 due to Boeing spaceship issues By Ronny Reyes Published Aug. 7, 2024, 3:14 p.m. ET ...

Sure, there are occasional resupplies from Earth, however, so they are not 100% closed loop systems. What is a completely closed loop, however, is Earth itself. Spaceship Earth Think about it.

Earth, after all, is our most incredible spaceship. NASA astronauts took this photo of Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away during the Apollo 10 mission in 1969.© NASA ...

NASA recently live streamed the departure of a spaceship from the International Space Station (ISS), but it wasn’t Boeing’s Starliner, which is staying longer than expected at the orbital ...

The two NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the space station since their Boeing spacecraft ran into problems will have to remain there even longer.

Previously, oxygen was produced on the ISS by a system that extracted it from 400 liters of water brought up from Earth each year. Therefore, it was not a closed-loop system.

Compared to the ISS, though, which weighs about 925,000 pounds, astronauts and cargo are extremely light. That's why SpaceX is looking into supercharging one of its Dragons for the job.

NASA has raised the alarm over a "toxic smell" and "possible contamination hazard in the form of droplets" emanating from a Russian spacecraft that has docked at the International Space Station (ISS).

The ISS will travel over part of the U.S. and Canada on Thursday night, giving millions a chance to view it as it flies by.

The Progress spaceship undocked from the ISS on October 29th. This image sequence, taken by Expedition 29’s astronaut Mike Fossum, goes from 12:49:23 to 12:54:07 GMT, “on a pass starting about ...

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