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Two Russian spacewalkers connected a new laboratory module to the International Space Station's power grid Friday, routing and plugging in eight cables to tap into electricity generated by NASA's ...

Last Thursday the large new Russian space station module, Nauka, finally docked with the International Space Station after several technical issues en route to the orbiting laboratory. However, the ...

Russia’s space agency blamed a “short-term software failure” for yesterday’s engine mishap with its new science module. The module’s thrusters unexpectedly fired hours after docking, shifting the ...

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At approximately 1 p.m. EDT Oct. 9, NASA flight controllers in mission control at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, using cameras on the International Space Station exterior, observed ...

Russia's Nauka, the country's science module, removed the cargo ship Progress MS-17 so that new modules could dock in the International Space Station. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew ...

NASA held a press conference Thursday with an ominous topic. The International Space Station had, for nearly an hour, pitched out of its regular orbit and announced a state of station emergency, which ...

HOUSTON—Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out the first of three planned spacewalks Nov. 17 to continue upgrades to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian Nauka ...

Another piece of Russian hardware has sprung a leak aboard the International Space Station, according to a post shared by NASA and Roscosmos. The new leak, which is coming from the Nauka science ...

This is the third coolant leak from Russia's hardware in Earth orbit within a year, but astronauts on board remain safe and out of immediate danger. Reading time 2 minutes Russia’s Nauka module sprung ...