International Space Station

Odd ‘tentacled’ shape on ISS alarms viewers

The photo prompted a rush of reactions from social media users.

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A tentacled look in space.
A UNITED Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US June 5, 2024.

'Unprofessional behavior': NASA report rips into astronaut-stranding Starliner mission

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman ripped into Boeing and agency leadership for their handling of the Starliner mission during a news conference timed with the release of the 300-page report.

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ROSCOSMOS COSMONAUT Alexey Zubritskiy conducts a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), October 16, 2025.

NASA returns ISS crew early for first time in history, due to 'serious medical condition'

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told reporters that the decision was made to return the astronaut because the capability to diagnose and treat them properly is not available on the ISS.

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Innovation, Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel shakes hands with Meredith McKay, NASA’s deputy administrator for international relations.

Jerusalem partners with NASA, looks forward to first Israeli woman in space

The deal will anchor joint projects with NASA until 2035, and is designed to expand already close cooperation on flagship projects.

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Immune systems can be weakened by space travel - what causes such an immune deificit? - study

The authors suggested that the change in gene expression of leukocytes under microgravity is triggered by a “fluid shift."

JUNE 23, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
David Saint-Jacques and a record number of astronauts on board the International Space Station are collecting blood and breath samples for Canadian study MARROW. The experiment takes a closer look at the space-related changes that occur in blood and bone marrow

Damaged Russian Soyuz capsule lands back on Earth from space station

Leaks prompted Roscosmos and the US space agency NASA to rearrange their schedules and postpone spacewalks.

MARCH 28, 2023ByREUTERS
A view shows external damage believed to have caused a loss of pressure in the cooling system of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS), in this image released February 13, 2023.

UAE's first long-duration astronaut observes Ramadan in space

Al Neyadi is only one of a handful of Muslim astronauts that have been to space.

MARCH 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE INTERNATIONAL Space Station, photographed by Expedition 66 crew member Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, in an image released April 20, 2022.

Latest four-member SpaceX crew docks with International Space Station

The autonomously flying spacecraft dubbed Endeavour docked to the space station shortly after 1:40 A.M. EST on Friday, nearly 25 hours after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaver

MARCH 3, 2023ByREUTERS
THE INTERNATIONAL Space Station, photographed by Expedition 66 crew member Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, in an image released April 20, 2022.

SpaceX launches international crew to orbit ISS for NASA

The flight came 72 hours after an initial launch attempt was scrubbed in the final minutes of countdown early on Monday.

MARCH 2, 2023ByREUTERS
NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission, that includes NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, launches to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, March 2, 2023

Russia launches spacecraft to rescue cosmonauts, astronaut stranded on ISS

An external coolant leak was detected on the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, rendering it inoperable for a standard return mission.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev conducts a spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin (not pictured) outside the International Space Station (ISS), November 17, 2022.

'Impossible Object' water sculpture activated on Int'l Space Station

The sculpture can only work in space where the lack of gravity makes water stick to the sculpture in three-dimensional shapes.

NOVEMBER 21, 2022ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
The ‘Impossible Object’

SpaceX capsule splashes down, returning 4 astronauts from Space Station

During their 170 days aboard the space station, the crew orbited Earth 2,720 times - about once every 90 minutes.

OCTOBER 15, 2022ByREUTERS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying three NASA and one ESA astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, November 10, 2021.

Rovers may have limited ability to detect biomolecules on Mars' surface -study

Scientists exposed seven biomolecules for about 15 months to a simulated environment similar to Mars outside of the International Space Station.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
EXPOSE-R2 platform installed outside of the ISS with BIOMEX experiment.

ESA astronaut documents Negev solar tower from space station

In a tweet, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti said it is "so unusual to see human-made lights in day passes!"

AUGUST 26, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A photograph taken with a drone of a solar power tower on a solar farm near Kibbutz Ashalim in the Negev desert on October 23.