space stations

  • NASA’s Fire-in-Space Experiment Ends in Flames

    NASA’s Fire-in-Space Experiment Ends in Flames

    After eight years of experimenting with flames in space, NASA lit a fire inside a cargo spacecraft for the last time and sent its Saffire experiment toward a burning reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiments, also known as Saffire, came to a fitting end on January 9, flying aboard a Northrop Grumman…


  • China Sends First Crew To Their New Space Station

    China Sends First Crew To Their New Space Station

    For the first time in 21 years, Earth has two separate crewed space stations in orbit. One is, of course, the International Space Station (ISS), with a crew of seven, and now there’s the three taikonauts aboard Tianhe, the core module of China’s new space station. There’s ten people in orbit now! Things are getting…