How to watch the International Space Station fly over Tasmania ...
Here's how to pinpoint the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope and other satellites in the sky above you with this satellite tracker powered by N2YO. The tracker should appear just below if Javascript is enabled. [How to Spot Satellites: An Observer's Guide] We are currently...
Building the International Space Station (ISS) is much like building a toy using a child's LEGO or K'nex building block set. But whereas those playthings tend to be small in scale, the ISS contains thousands and thousands of parts [source: Hollingham]. Some of the major components are li...
Although it's more challenging to observe than theInternational Space Station(ISS), the Chinese space station, officially known as Tiangong, can be seen from Earth's surface. Tiangong, which means "Heavenly Palace" in Mandarin , appears fainter than the ISS because the Chinese space statio...
SpaceX will supercharge its Dragon capsule to send the International Space Station to a watery retirement ByMeghan Bartelsedited byLee Billings NASA’s Johnson Space Center (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) In just a handful of years, a beefed-up version of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will launch...
This week holds another exciting event at the International Space Station (ISS) as two NASA astronauts will head out on a six-and-a-half-hour long spacewalk this Thursday, January 30. This is the second U.S. spacewalk this year, and preparations are underway to get the astronauts, their ...
Catching the International Space Station flying overhead is actually a fairly easy thing to do. It’s the third brightest object found regularly in the sky, after the Sun and the Moon. (It should be noted, with only the naked eye it doesn’t look like much more than a dot—but it’...
Why did the Boeing Starliner crew go to the International Space Station in the first place? The June launch was the Starliner's first piloted test flight. NASA has funded the development of the capsule and SpaceX's Crew Dragon as the space agency looks to stop using Russian Soyuz flights ...
Mood of consternation and uncertainty as space agency's outgoing leader announces plans to scrap robot mining mission Photos: From the IBM ThinkPad to the Apple iPad - the tech used on the ISS(TechRepublic) This is the history of laptops used on board the ISS, since constru...
International Space Station Lesson for Kids from Chapter 8 / Lesson 10 11K Come, explore the International Space Station (ISS), the only satellite orbiting the planet where humans live. Learn about the ISS, how it got into space, what it's like to live on the ISS, and how microgravity...