It doesn't seem out of place today, but the sight 30 years ago of a cylindrical module mounted inside the space shuttle's cargo bay was described as an "odd-appearing assemblage" in 1983. The unusual ...

Thirty years ago this week the first European-built Spacelab was launched on the Space Shuttle. ESA’s first astronaut, Ulf Merbold, flew on the mission, marking ESA’s entry into human spaceflight. On ...

A Chinese Long March rocket boosted an advanced laboratory module into space Thursday that will serve as an orbital base for month-long stays by two-person crews starting in late October, paving the ...

A legacy of European-built and operated space modules, which began in Earth orbit and is now heading for the moon, got its start 40 years ago this week. From the first launch of Spacelab, a ...

As people move toward fully realizing the research opportunities afforded by the International Space Station and look ahead to the next generation of hardware development and research to be conducted, ...

Some debris from the Tiangong-1 spacelab will likely fall into the ocean or somewhere on land, but the chances of human injury are vanishingly small. An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at ...

PARIS, France — China’s doomed spacelab Tiangong-1 is hurtling uncontrolled back to earth and may not hit the forlorn spot in the southern Pacific Ocean where it was supposed to crash. Officially ...

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Members of SCORPIO-V, a division of HNu Photonics based in Kahului, work on the Mobile SpaceLab-2, which is scheduled to launch in early 2021 on the SpX-22, a future resupply mission to the ...