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It wasn’t just Earthlings on Earth who got to witness the lovely blushing of the “flower blood moon” total lunar eclipse on Sunday night and Monday morning. Residents of the International Space Station had a great view of the spectacular celestial event. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shared a beautiful series of photos of …

The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday morning. And the spacecraft, which separated from the rocket after reaching orbit, spent about 20 hours free flying through orbit as it maneuvered closer to the ISS. The trip was brokered by the Houston, Texas-based startup Axiom Space, which seeks to book rocket rides, …

The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this is no exception in low-gravity environments, such as the International Space Station (ISS).   Researchers from the United States and India working with NASA have now discovered four strains of bacteria living in different places in the ISS – …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Nasa astronaut Christopher Cassidy (l), and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin (c) and Ivan Vagner Three new crew members have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a launch carried out under tight restrictions due to the coronavirus. The Russian Soyuz rocket carrying cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner and …

Boeing has launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station. Starliner is aboard an Atlas rocket which took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The test flight has a dummy on board but, if it is successful, Nasa hopes that astronauts will be able to start using the craft from 2020. Astronauts haven’t launched …

Image copyright AFP/Nasa/Bill Ingalls Image caption The cargo is being transported on the Northrop Grumman Antares rocket An oven has been launched to the International Space Station (ISS) for astronauts to bake chocolate chip cookies in. A cargo craft containing the specially-designed “space oven” and baking ingredients took off from the US state of Virginia …

A live video link to the ISS – optimized with cloud workflows Over 4 days in October, the world’s leading experts on media technologies gathered at the annual technical conference of SMPTE, known as SMPTE 2019 – among them experts from EBU Members organizations and the EBU itself. Over 1500 participants discussed technology developments in the area of video, …

NASA initially planned the spacewalk for Thursday, October 17. The space agency has, however, pushed the event back by one day to Friday, October 18. The spacewalk is scheduled to kick off at 12.50pm BST (7.50am EDT). NASA said: “On Friday, October 18, starting at around 5.50am EDT, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir …

Astronauts Christina Koch and Drew Morgan floated outside the International Space Station on Sunday, removed three aging batteries from the lab’s solar power truss and installed two more powerful replacements. It was the first of five planned spacewalks to upgrade the complex electrical system and extend the station’s life through the 2020s. “Awesome work today,” …