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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‘Happy Hanukkah from space,’ Jessica Meir says wearing menorah socks

Meir, the daughter of an Israeli doctor who moved to Sweden and later to the US, joined the ISS crew in September. Two weeks later, she participated in the first all-female spacewalk.

DECEMBER 23, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Hanukkah greetings from astronaut Jessica Meir's Twitter account.

NASA to send Israeli solar-power generator to International Space Station

One small step for space agencies, one giant leap for private commercial space missions.

NOVEMBER 10, 2019ByAARON REICH
View of the full installation at which testing will be performed within the framework of NASA’s Materials International Space Station Experiment.

Jewish New York couple to help bake cookies in space

The couple aims to make space travel more comfortable for astronauts spending months onboard the ISS.

NOVEMBER 1, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
An illustration of an astronaut with a DoubleTree by Hilton Cookie

WATCH: NASA's first all-female spacewalk happens today!

Women are making history on the final frontier.

OCTOBER 18, 2019ByABIGAIL ROSENTHAL/GATEHOUSE MEDIA/THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL/TNS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured an aurora from the International Space Station in this NASA handout photo taken on June 23, 2015.

Jewish and Arab astronauts head to space together

Hazzaa al-Mansoori, 35, of the United Arab Emirates and Jessica Meir, an American, took off on the historic trip from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019BySAM SOKOL/JTA
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured an aurora from the International Space Station in this NASA handout photo taken on June 23, 2015.

Marital dispute escalates in alleged first space crime

220 miles above the earth's surface apparently wasn't far enough to escape this argument.

AUGUST 25, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
astronaut Anne McClain during training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston

Ready for a vacation on the International Space Station?

NASA's long-term plans are opening up the ISS to a whole new world of possibilities.

JUNE 9, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured an aurora from the International Space Station in this NASA handout photo taken on June 23, 2015.

SpaceX rocket launches towards the International Space Station

SpaceX's 16-foot-tall (4.9 meters) Crew Dragon capsule, atop a Falcon 9 rocket, lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 2:49 a.m. (0749 GMT), carrying a test dummy nicknamed Ripley.

MARCH 2, 2019ByREUTERS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft sits on launch pad 39A prior to the uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 1, 2019

TAU study makes breakthrough discovery in supermassive black hole research

JANUARY 15, 2019ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
A supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun is seen in an undated NASA artist's concept illustration.

Into the Hands of the Few

DECEMBER 13, 2017ByMICHAEL ORDMAN
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