Photographing the International Space Station seems like something that could be done only from space, but taking a picture from your own backyard actually is easier than you might think.
A smoke measurement experiment aboard the International Space Station could help fight fires and save lives.
Working in chorus with the International Space Station team in Mission Control, the Expedition 30 crew is upgrading the primary computers onboard.
They likely don't make a notation of the star date or call it a captain's log, but astronauts aboard the ISS, like many other voyagers, keep journals.
It took careful planning, computer modeling and fixture removal to move a full-scale shuttle model across Kennedy.
01.03.12 - Three crew members will discuss their upcoming Expedition 31 and 32 missions in a news conference at 1 p.m. CST Wednesday, Jan. 11, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA Television and the agency’s website will broadcast the briefing live.
12.22.11 - International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy, viewed from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21.
12.21.11 - NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands launched to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M craft at 7:16 a.m. CST Wednesday, Dec. 21 (7:16 p.m. local time), from Kazakhstan.
These are copies of the flight plan timelines used by the crew onboard the International Space Station.
These are copies of the flight plan timelines used by the crew onboard the International Space Station.
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