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November 9, 2025

Astronauts design t-shirts for UNIQLO 'Peace For All' charity sale

A professional football player-turned-NASA astronaut-turned author and advocate for science education has taken yet another turn: designing t-shirts to promote world peace. Leland Melvin has collaborated with two commercial astronauts and UNIQLO.

November 7, 2025

Astronaut Rick Hauck, who led first flight after shuttle Challenger tragedy, dies at 84

Former NASA astronaut Rick Hauck, who flew on three history-making space shuttle missions, including the "return to flight" following the Challenger tragedy in 1986, has died. He was 84. He orbited Earth 288 times in 18 days, 3 hours and 8 minutes.

November 4, 2025

Scott Tingle named NASA chief astronaut, succeeds ISS crewmate Joe Acaba

NASA has named its 19th chief astronaut. Scott Tingle, who spent 166 days on the International Space Station in 2018 and was next to command the first operational flight of Boeing's Starliner, is succeeding Joe Acaba as the head of the astronaut office.

November 2, 2025

Humans have lived on ISS for 25 years: here's how they left their mark

The International Space Station has served for 25 years as a continuous home for a total of 162 people from 12 countries. All of the residents made their mark in one way by contributing to its assembly or by using it for science. They left a personal mark, too.

October 27, 2025

25 years, one website: 'ISS in Real Time' captures quarter-century on space station

With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there has now been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 25 years. But what does that quarter of a century actually encompass?

November 5, 2025

Margaritaville on a mission: Jimmy Buffett patch to fund ISS science

The first mission patch to directly fund research on the International Space Station is the first product of a long-standing but little known collaboration between the ISS National Laboratory and Margaritaville. Yes, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville...

November 3, 2025

'Space Explorers: Ultimate' VR app brings users to ISS and space to their homes

With the release of Felix & Paul Studios' latest version of "Space Explorers," users can now find and collect virtual space artifacts on the International Space Station and then interact with them within their own physical spaces.

October 29, 2025

Japan's 1st advanced cargo ship, HTV-X1, arrives at the International Space Station

For the first time in five years, a Japanese spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station. JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) oversaw the HTV-X1, its first upgraded cargo ship, as it was captured and berthed to the orbital complex.

October 22, 2025

TX lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian

Have you heard the news that Texas' senators want to chop up NASA's retired space shuttle Discovery in order to move it from the Smithsonian to Houston? The lawmakers in question have and are now crying foul to the Justice Department.

November 6, 2025
Deadline

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Joins Andrea Iervolino's Effort To Film Romantic Drama 'I See You' In Space

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has joined forces with Italian producer Andrea Iervolino (Ferrari) and his Space11 Corp banner for the upcoming "romantic space drama" I See You, which is aiming to be the first western movie to send a filmmaker into orbit to capture a scene.

November 1, 2025
TIME Magazine

The Forgotten Story of NASA's Most Life-Threatening Spacewalk

The last thing Tom Stafford wanted to do was cut Gene Cernan loose in space. Stafford liked Cernan; he had trained hard with Cernan. For more than a year, the two of them had worked together to get ready for their three-day flight of Gemini 9, and now, in early June 1966, they were actually aloft. But the business of cutting Cernan loose was all at once a very real possibility.

October 31, 2025
Xinhau

China launches Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship

China launched the Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship on Friday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station on a six-month mission.

October 24, 2025
The New York Times

How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth

The darkness we expected. What we had underestimated was the silence: the quiet of the vacuum, disturbed only by our breath and the radio in our ears.

October 21, 2025
MIT Technology Review

25 years of research in space

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station — and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments — have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe.

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