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One of the most famous objects in LEO is the International Space Station (ISS), which orbits the Earth at about ... Congestion in orbit endangers astronauts and vital space-based technologies. For ...

Other astronauts have stayed a couple of hundred days on the space station. But this was a planned 10-day excursion that will ...

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station will celebrate New Year’s a total of 16 times as the vessel hurdles ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 with a stunning Earth photo that he described as a “New Year’s light show.” Pettit captured the amazing image from the International Space Station ...

Leroy Chiao, a retired Nasa astronaut who went on three flights to space in the 1990s and 2000s on Nasa's Space Shuttle and to the International Space Station, agrees. "Humans relate when humans ...

The two astronauts were left behind on the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024 after propulsion issues with their spacecraft meant their eight-day mission had to be extended.