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News Articles: International Space Station

The Boeing Starliner prepares to dock at the International Space Station on Friday.

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Boeing finally docks a capsule to the space station

With only a test dummy aboard, Boeing's astronaut capsule pulled up and parked at the International Space Station for the first time, a huge achievement for the company after years of false starts.

May 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo taken from video footage released by the Roscosmos Space Agency, three Russian cosmonauts sport yellow spacesuits upon arriving on the International Space Station. A NASA astronaut now says it was not in support for Ukraine, but for the Russians' university school colors.

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No, Russian cosmonauts were not making a pro-Ukraine statement with their spacesuits

Mark Vande Hei, a NASA astronaut who returned to earth on March 30, said the yellow and blue colors were from the university the Russian cosmonauts attended.

April 06, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
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Opinion: The weightlessness of peace

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the cooperation between Americans and Russians working with the International Space Station, despite tensions on Earth over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 02, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Expedition 66 crew members (left to right) Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are seen inside their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan on Wednesday in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

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  • Space

A U.S. and 2 Russian astronauts return to Earth together following a trip to space

A NASA astronaut and the Russian cosmonauts parachute-landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after a trip back to Earth from the International Space Station, in a rare instance of U.S.-Russia cooperation.

March 30, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
Russian cosmonauts (from left) Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev wear yellow at the International Space Station.

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Russian cosmonauts board Space Station wearing blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine

Wearing the colors Ukraine's flag has widely been seen as a way to support that country and oppose Russia's invasion.

March 19, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
The International Space Station is seen from NASA space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation in space on May 29, 2011.

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  • Space

What will happen to the International Space Station when it is retired?

NASA says the International Space Station will stop operating at the end of 2030. After that, the space agency plans to crash the football field-sized craft into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.

February 03, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
"By bringing archaeological perspectives to an active space domain, we're the first to show how people adapt their behavior to a completely new environment," Associate Professor Justin Walsh of Chapman University said of the experiment.

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  • Space

Archaeologists launch first-ever 'dig' into life on the International Space Station

The project, a first of its kind, aims to study the social and cultural dimensions of living in space and how people adapt their behavior when they're living in a completely new environment.

January 20, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
International Space Station is seen over a blue and white Earth, taken shortly after the Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital outpost.

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  • Space

The threat of space debris delays a spacewalk by NASA astronauts

Two NASA astronauts were scheduled for a Tuesday morning spacewalk to fix a faulty antenna on the International Space Station. But the threat of space debris has delayed those plans.

November 30, 2021
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  • Tien Le
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins waves at the audience during the astronaut graduation ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in January 2020. In April 2022, she will become the first Black woman to live and work on the International Space Station.

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Jessica Watkins will be the first Black woman to live and work on the space station

Watkins will join the fourth SpaceX Crew next April on her way to entering the ranks of other history-making women at NASA like astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride.

November 19, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
The International Space Station shown in orbit in 2011. Astronauts aboard the station were ordered to briefly take shelter after Russia conducted an orbital test of an anti-satellite missile that spewed potentially dangerous debris into orbit.

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  • Space

A Russian missile creates enough space junk to pose risk to astronauts for years

The U.S. condemned the test, which blasted a cloud of debris into orbit, forcing astronauts aboard the ISS to spend two hours inside spacecraft that could return them to Earth in an emergency.

November 16, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
A hatch chile aboard the International Space Station

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Fine dining on the International Space Station

NPR's Scott Simon contemplates the growing dining options for astronauts aboard the space station, including tacos, chile and even lobster.

November 06, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough checks Hatch chile plants growing on the International Space Station earlier this year.

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  • Space

Astronauts grew green chile on the space station and made themselves space tacos

It's NASA's first time growing peppers in space. And after they were harvested, NASA astronauts got to sample the crop sprinkled on tacos at the International Space Station.

November 02, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center), along with film director Klim Shipenko (right) and actor Yulia Peresild (left) pose for a photo ahead of the launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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  • Space

A Russian actor blasts off to make a movie on the International Space Station

The film is reportedly the first feature-length fiction movie shot in space, telling the story of a doctor who rushes to save the life of a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station.

October 05, 2021
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  • Nell Clark
The bottle of Pétrus 2000 spent 14 months on the International Space Station. It will be sold alongside a "terrestrial" bottle of the same vintage.

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  • Science

A Fancy Bottle Of Wine That Went To Space Can Be Yours For Perhaps A Million Dollars

The bottle of Pétrus 2000, a luxury wine that would normally cost about $6,500, spent 14 months on the International Space Station. Now, via Christie's, it can be yours.

May 05, 2021
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  • Becky Sullivan
NASA astronauts Shannon Walker (left), Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Fla., on Sunday.

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  • Space

4 Astronauts Splash Down In SpaceX Dragon Capsule After 6 Months In Orbit

The astronauts returned from the International Space Station after their spacecraft, Resilience, set a new record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. space capsule that carried a crew.

May 02, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
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