Rocketing into space aboard the space shuttle Challenger as the first American woman to fly in space is one of my favorite moments.

July 24, 2012

Farewell to Dr. Sally Ride

As the first American female astronaut, Dr. Sally Kristen Ride – a Stanford-educated physicist – has earned a special place...

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July 16, 2012

NASA’s Uhran Retiring, New Crew on the ISS

Best Wishes to Mark Uhran As Assistant Associate Administrator for the International Space Station Division, Mark Uhran oversaw...

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June 21, 2012

The ISS National Lab-PGA STEM Summer Camp (June 18-22, 2012)

Our first the ISS National Lab/PGA STEM Summer Camp was a huge success! Middle-school students from five different schools in...

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SS031 S 002 (14 July 2011) Expedition 31 crew members take a break from training at NASAs Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait. Pictured on the front row are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (right), commander; and Gennady Padalka, flight engineer. Pictured from the left (back row) are NASA astronaut Joe Acaba, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Revin, European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers and NASA astronaut Don Pettit, all flight engineers.

June 18, 2012

A Day Aboard the ISS

Right now, six people are living and working on-board the International Space Station (ISS) while it orbits approximately 200...

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ISS030 E 185321 (28 March 2012) Moscow, Russia appears at the center of this nighttime image photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 240 miles. A solar array panel for the space station is on the left side of the frame. The view is to the north northwest from a nadir of approximately 49.4 degrees north latitude and 42.1 degrees east longitude, about 100 miles west northwest of Volgograd. On the horizon in the background can be seen a small sample of Aurora Borealis, airglow and daybreak.

June 6, 2012

CASIS Must Succeed: And It Can if We Make it So

As I pointed out in the first part of this essay (which also appears on this web site) the International Space Station is an...

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FALCON 9 LIFTING OFF TOWARDS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

May 22, 2012

There Be Dragons… In Space

At 2:44 CDT this morning, SpaceX became the first private company to launch its own spacecraft towards the International Space...

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April 2001 Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield, mission specialist representing the Canadian Space Agency, gives fellow astronauts the thumbs up during the first spacewalk of the STS 100 shuttle mission during Expedition 2 on the station.

May 17, 2012

CASIS Must Succeed: And It Can If We So Choose

The International Space Station is an engineering and space operations marvel, but that alone doesn’t make it successful. NASA...

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The Dragon capsule is rotated into position during processing ahead of its demonstration mission to the International Space Station. The spacecraft will launch into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Both the launcher and spacecraft are made by SpaceX.

May 5, 2012

Space-station rendezvous set to spur research push

When it comes to doing science on the International Space Station (ISS), the laws of gravity have been flipped: what goes up...

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The 11:29 a.m. EDT liftoff on July 8, 2011, marked the last time a space shuttle would climb from Kennedys seaside launch complex to soar toward the heavens.

May 1, 2012

If you want to do research on the ISS, the ISS National Lab is looking for you

The Space Shuttles have all been retired. The International Space Station (ISS) is expected to be decommissioned in 2020....

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The International Space Station seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their separation. Earlier the STS 128 and Expedition 20 crews finished nearly nine days of work. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 21:26 CEST on 8 September 2009.

April 4, 2011

Introduction to the International Space Station

Before we discuss the scientific research and technology development on-orbit, let’s give the ISS itself a proper...

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Southern Lights near the Great Australian Bight An astronaut took this photograph of the Aurora Australis in August 2017. At the time, the International Space Station was moving over the southern Indian Ocean towards the Great Australian Bight and Melbourne, Australia.

April 4, 2011

The Ultimate Platform for Earth Observation

Imagery of the Earth is one of the most tangible products from the International Space Station and is among the most easily...

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