Tag: international space station

US, Russia to Continue Ride-Sharing Agreement; Roscosmos Gains New CEO

The AP reported that NASA astronauts “will go back to riding Russian rockets under an agreement announced Friday, and Russian cosmonauts will catch lifts to the International Space Station with SpaceX beginning this fall.” The ISS will “always have at least one American and Russian on board to keep both sides of the orbiting outpost running smoothly, according to NASA and Russian officials.”
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NASA Selects Five Universities for ISS Experiments

ExecutiveGov reports that NASA “has selected five universities to design research experiments that will take place on the International Space Station.” Each awardee “will receive approximately $100,000 to formulate these experiments under the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research or EPSCoR program.” The awardees are: Montana State University, New Mexico State University, the University of Delaware, the University of Idaho, and the University of Nebraska.
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SpaceX Offers to Keep ISS Operational If Russia Withdraws

CNET News reports Elon Musk replied to Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin’s threat to withdraw Russian support for the International Space Station (ISS) by sharing the SpaceX logo on Twitter. Russian spacecraft “attached to the Russian segment of the ISS are used to adjust the flying laboratory’s path and literally help keep it high enough in low Earth orbit so it doesn’t fall out of the sky.”
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Russia to Film Movie Aboard ISS

The New York Times reports that a Russian medical and safety commission approved Thursday “a plan for an actress and a director to blast off early next month to film” a full-length movie in space. The movie, called “The Challenge,” “tells of a female doctor launched on short notice to the International Space Station to save the life of a cosmonaut.” Filming is scheduled to begin next month.
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