space stations
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Mutated Strains of Unknown Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found Lurking on ISS
It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth.
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Building a Spacecraft to Deorbit ISS ‘Not Optional,’ Claims NASA Safety Panel
Failure to properly dispose of the space station could result in catastrophe, the panel warns.
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Here Are All The Space Stations In History
Video: Sending something up into space? Having it stay up while people live on it as it orbits the Earth? Becoming an outpost far, far away from home? Just incredible. Building a habitable space station satellite will always be an amazing feat of engineering and planning and sheer human ingenuity. Here are all the space…
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9 Forgotten NASA Concepts For Space Stations That Never Flew
The ISS has been around for 16 years now, and we’re used to the idea of having a permanently-manned station in orbit. But in the decades leading up to its creation, NASA floated dozens of other ideas for a station — some of them prescient, others seemingly ridiculous to our eyes.