Int. Space Station (ISS) News Archive

ISS: Building a Ship Outside a Shipyard
Posted on: Tue Aug 15th, 2006 | nasa.gov

It's not your typical shipbuilder's site. In fact, it's not your typical ship. There are no outfitting piers or full-service bulkheads. No sights of yellow hard hats or sounds of beeping trucks with back-up alarms. However, men and women are at work, harder now than ever before.

Shuttle Astronauts Ready to Undock from Space Station
Posted on: Sat Jul 15th, 2006 | voanews.com

The U.S. space shuttle Discovery is to undock from the International Space Station Saturday after a week-and-a-half resupply and maintenance visit. The shuttle crew made a final inspection of the orbiter's exterior to look for damage that might interfere with a safe return to Earth next week.

Russian spaceship set for fiery end in Pacific after leaving ISS
Posted on: Mon Jun 19th, 2006 | en.rian.ru

MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian launch vehicle will be sunk in the Pacific Ocean Monday evening after being undocked from the world's sole orbital station earlier in the day, a Mission Control official said.

The real significance of the ISS thruster test failure
Posted on: Mon May 8th, 2006 | thespacereview.com

Last month the test of thrusters mounted on a Russian module of the ISS was aborted. James Oberg examines what went wrong with that test, and its significance for ISS operations in general.

Behind the beautiful Soyuz launch: overcoming a communications emergency
Posted on: Mon Apr 10th, 2006 | thespacereview.com

Behind the scenes of the beautiful blastoff two weeks ago of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three men headed towards the International Space Station, a critical communications blackout hit Mission Control in Moscow. That emergency quickly passed without any harm to the mission or the crew.