International Space Station (ISS)

Readers write about space station experiments, the Check 6 podcast, firefighting aircraft and U.S. air base defense. Plus Behind the Scenes with the Photo Contest judges and at the Wings Club.

The demonstration’s multiple objectives include creating and validating new technologies for improving communications between quantum computers.

As the hatch was opened, the Russian cosmonauts observed small droplets of liquid as well as an unanticipated odor.

The uncrewed Russian cargo craft is delivering a 5,500-lb. cargo of food, propellant and crew supplies.

Readers write about seaplanes and the International Space Station. Plus: Behind the Scenes with Lydia Janow, senior vice president of Aviation Week Network Events.

Russia’s Progress MS-29 resupply capsule was on course for a Nov. 23 docking with the ISS, following a launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The International Space Station crew used propulsion from a Russian Progress resupply capsule to carry out an orbital debris avoidance maneuver, NASA says.

Russia’s Progress MS-27 cargo capsule departed the seven-person International Space Station early on Nov. 19.

The Exploration Company, which is working on an ESA cargo return capsule, says it has closed a $160 million Series B funding round.

The session focused on structural cracks with air leaks in the Russian segment and the safe potential deorbiting of the outpost in a contingency.

The challenges are even more relevant because of a constrained federal budget environment.

The Nov. 8 operation had already been set when the resupply mission docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS earlier this week.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered a cold welding experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 5.

Deorbiting the ultra-high-power International Space Station would be a waste of energy, literally and figuratively.

The SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS on Nov. 5 to deliver 6,000 lb. of supplies, station hardware and research material.

Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A followed a Falcon 9 scrub Nov. 3 at the neighboring Cape Canaveral SFS Space Launch Complex 40.

The Denver-based company is perhaps best known as a co-developer of the free-flying Starlab commercial space station for NASA.

SpaceX CRS-31 is scheduled to launch on the Falcon 9 rocket with the Cargo Dragon capsule from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 4 .

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) made special mention during its fourth-quarter session of how mission management openly addressed safety concerns.

One unidentified NASA astronaut was kept overnight at a medical facility but was ultimately declared in “good health.”

A number of initiatives were disclosed, but the talk of the show was SpaceX’s Starship booster catch, which happened just ahead of the IAC opening.

Splashdown and recovery in the ocean waters off the Florida peninsula is expected no earlier than Oct. 25 at about 3:29 a.m. EDT.

Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will splash down into either the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coasts.

The astronauts are NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeannette Epps. The cosmonaut is Alexander Grebenken.

The decision to proceed awaits further assessment of the weather outlook scheduled for Oct. 18.