On An Aging Space Station, Air Leaks Become Routine

Anyone who’s ever owned an older car will know the feeling: the nagging worry at the back of your mind that today might be the day that something important actually stops working. Oh, it&#821…

ISS Mimic Brings Space Station Down To Earth

Built at a cost of more than $150 billion over the last twenty-five years, the International Space Station is arguably one of humanity’s greatest engineering triumphs. Unfortunately, unlike E…

This Model Mimics The International Space Station

It’s not an overstatement to say that the International Space Station (ISS for short) is an amazing feat of engineering, especially considering that it has been going for over two decades. Th…

Listening To The ISS On The Cheap

Like any hobby, amateur radio has no upper bounds on what you can spend getting geared up. Shacks worth tens of thousands of dollars are easy to come by, and we’ll venture a guess that there …

The International Space Station Is Always Up There

Thanks to its high orbital inclination, the International Space Station (ISS) eventually passes over most inhabited parts of the Earth. Like other artificial satellites, though, it’s typicall…

Damaged Soyuz May Leave Crew Without A Ride Home

Though oddly beautiful in its own way, it’s a sight no astronaut wants to see: their spacecraft, the only way they have to return to Earth, ejecting countless iridescent droplets of something…

NASA Manages Astronaut Health with Effective Diagnostics Research

NASA is testing a suite of medical diagnostic devices aboard the International Space Station that will help astronauts evaluate their physical condition in space.

Hackaday Links: May 8, 2022

Russia’s loose cannon of a space boss is sending mixed messages about the future of the International Space Station. Among the conflicting statements from Director-General Dmitry Rogozin, the…

Axiom’s Private ISS Mission Was No Space Vacation

In an era where anyone with deep enough pockets can hitch a ride to the edge of space and back, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Axiom’s Ax-1 mission to the International Space Stati…

Russian Cosmonauts Arrive at ISS in Colors of Ukrainian Flag

Three Russian cosmonauts arrived on the International Space Station wearing flight suits in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

This video puts a year of the ISS astronauts' life into just one minute - DIY Photography

Other than capturing stunning photos of Earth, astronauts, of course, do so much more up there on the ISS. Have you ever wondered what their typical day looks like? Thomas Pesquet has squeezed it into a short video that shows a year of the ISS...

Russia is filming the first-ever movie onboard the ISS - DIY Photography

Even though Tom Cruise wanted to make the first movie in space, the Russian film crew beat him to it. Actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko, and veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov recently arrived at the International Space Station, where...

Russian Actress and Director to Start Making First Movie on Space Station

The pair arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, aiming to shoot scenes for the first feature film made in orbit.

Russian Actress and Director to Start Making First Movie on Space Station

The pair arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, aiming to shoot scenes for the first feature film made in orbit.

NASA Sets Eyes On Deep Space With Admin Shuffle

Since the Apollo 17 crew returned from the Moon in 1972, human spaceflight has been limited to low Earth orbit (LEO). Whether they were aboard Skylab, Mir, the Space Shuttle, a Soyuz capsule, or th…

Astro Pi Mk II, The New Raspberry Pi Hardware Headed To The Space Station

Back in 2015, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake brought a pair of specially equipped Raspberry Pi computers, nicknamed Izzy and Ed, onto the International Space Station and invited st…

A talk with Tom Cruise as the astronauts cruise around the planet.

The movie star may have his own ambitions of traveling to orbit one day.

Russia to Open New Frontier in Space, Shooting First Full-Length Movie

Racing to beat NASA, an actress and a film director will blast off next month for the International Space Station, where they will film “The Challenge.”