ISS Archives - Health Thoroughfare

NASA Developed A Way Of Predicting Radiation Risks For Astronauts Aboard The ISS

While astronauts are bravely discovering new information about space, they also have to face multiple hazards. First of all, there are the well-known risks implied by the high-speed space debris, equipment malfunction, and the challenging take-off and re-entry procedures, plus…

August 22, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Russia Aims to Leave the International Space Station If the US Won’t Lift Sanctions

The International Space Station (ISS) is a project between five participating space agencies, including NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos. Sanctions imposed by the US on the space sector had been hindering satellite launches from Russia. As a result, Dmitry Rogozin, the…

June 8, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Space Debris Damages the International Space Station

Plenty of astronomers have raised the alarm in the past about the high amount of space debris that wanders above the Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds. Any space mission in such an area poses a risk, and a good cleansing…

May 31, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The Opportunity of Becoming an ESA Astronaut Becomes Real

Let’s admit it: most boys hoped to become astronauts when they were little. While being an astronaut is still far less exciting than we see in sci-fi movies, going to the Moon or just above the Earth’s atmosphere still represent…

February 10, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

The ISS Is Facing A Problem And The Source Cannot Be Found

There have been reports about a tiny bit of air that’s always leaking from the ISS, but it was not as much as it’s leaking now. Science Alert noted that officials talked about the issue back in September 2019, but…

September 3, 2020 · by Rada Mateescu · 0

Exotic “Fifth Form Of Matter” Was Created On Board Of The ISS

Experts at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have managed to create a rare quantum state of matter that’s known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in space for the very first time. A new paper that’s been just published on…

June 16, 2020 · by Rada Mateescu · 0

Roscosmos Successfully Deployed Payload To The ISS With A Superfast Scheme

Since November 2nd, 2000, Roscosmos took care to have a continuous human presence in the laboratory International Space Station (ISS) has on orbit. The partnership between the ISS and the Russian Space Agency has proven to be lucrative for both…

April 26, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Science News: ISS Astronauts Ended Their Mission, Scientists Found A Weird Star, And Chernobyl Wildfires Engulfed Ukraine

The US-Russian ISS astronauts have returned to Earth after 200 days in the space, as TribuneIndia reported. The mission has successfully ended on the 17th of April, after the astronauts landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, being warmly welcomed with…

April 19, 2020 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

NASA Astronauts Return Home After More Than Half a Year on the ISS

As their mission is almost accomplished, two NASA astronauts are ready to return home after more than a half a year at the ISS. How hard will it be for them to see the changing world due to the COVID-19…

April 12, 2020 · by Anna Daniels · 0

New Chinese Spacecraft Could Dock With The ISS

Chinese experts are hard at work on the development of a new spacecraft that will be tested in the following months, and it appears that it will include new technology that should allow it to dock with the International Space…

March 31, 2020 · by Anna Daniels · 0