International Space Station

When the first astronauts reach Mars, they will carry out heavy physical tasks after many months of traveling in weightlessness. New Atlas talked to Draper scholars Rachel Bellisle and Tom Abitante about technologies to help keep astronauts healthy.

Blue Origin and Sierra Space have revealed plans to place a commercially developed, owned, launched, and operated open-system architecture space station called Orbital Reef into low-Earth orbit between 2025 and 2030.

The ISS is about to receive its third robotic arm, which will be capable of "walking" around the Russian segment of the orbital outpost all by itself. It will do so hand-over-hand thanks to the flexibility afforded by its seven motorized joints.

The CRISPR gene-editing tool has been successfully used in space for the first time. Researchers onboard the International Space Station have edited colonies of yeast to study how they repair DNA damage, which could one day help protect astronauts.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have undertaken three spacewalks over a 10-day period in order to install and power up a new set of roll-out solar arrays to the exterior hull of the orbital outpost.

An advanced spacecraft under development by Boeing is set to swing back into action following a failed attempt to reach the International Space Station in 2019, ahead of crewed flights planned for later in the year.

Procter & Gamble is working with NASA to develop special detergents and washing machines to launder clothes in space. The company's Mission PGTide will test the detergent and other cleaning products aboard the International Space Station in 2022.

ESA is working on ways to make sharing unwashed underwear used in spacesuits a bit less horrible. The Austrian Space Forum will work with the Vienna Textile Lab to test textiles with improved anti-bacterial properties for suits used on long missions.

A wine that spent 14 months on the International Space Station (ISS) is being offered up for sale by auction house Christie's. One of a dozen bottles of vintage Pétrus 2000 sent to the station, it could bring an estimated US$1 million.

NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched the second Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station from American soil. The capsule was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

If you've ever wondered what would happen to wine aged for a year in space then wonder no more. The first ever tasting of "space wine" has been conducted, with one expert describing it as “more evolved” than its similarly aged earthbound counterpart.

NASA astronauts have completed a seven-hour spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of a new set of solar panels that will help support the ageing array that’s been serving the station since December 2000.