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NASA decides to bring Starliner spacecraft back to Earth without crew | Crew to return on SpaceX Dragon Feb 2025
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SpaceX to return Boeing's Starliner astronauts from space next year
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NASA says chances are growing that astronauts may switch from Boeing to a SpaceX ride back to Earth
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NASA cancels in progress ISS spacewalk due to spacesuit coolant leak
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Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing's Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing
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What are some good books to learn how the International Space Station works?
There are many interesting videos about the ISS on YouTube, but I have a hard time committing video content to memory, and it is also difficult for me to create a mental picture of how things work...
There are many interesting videos about the ISS on YouTube, but I have a hard time committing video content to memory, and it is also difficult for me to create a mental picture of how things work in that format.
So, what are some good books (or maybe long-form articles) about the ISS that can help me understand it both functionally and spatially? Essentially, where everything is, what everything is for, and also how all the procedures actually work. I'm looking for both accessible introductions for the general public and more technical literature (although I am not in STEM, so something meant specifically for engineers might be too much for me).
The purpose of the request is research for something I am writing. I intend it to be (kinda hard) science fiction, so I wanna be able to comfortably visualize and refer to all the spaces and moving parts with knowledge. I do wanna learn some jargon and what it's for, but I'm not building a space station in my garage :P
It takes place in current times.
I'm not against learning more about the history of the ISS, but my focus is really on how it is organized, what every part is meant to accomplish, and how the operations and procedures actually take place there. Including all the rules, methods, and inner works involving human beings, both in relation to the ISS and themselves.
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The bodily indignities of the space life
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Photographs from ISS not of Earth?
This random late-night thought that hopefully someone can quickly point me to (my Google-fu is weak tonight). I'd like to see some pictures of space from the ISS that don't include Earth. I live...
This random late-night thought that hopefully someone can quickly point me to (my Google-fu is weak tonight). I'd like to see some pictures of space from the ISS that don't include Earth. I live in an area that is heavily light polluted so my nightsky view is terrible and I've seen amazing images from other places on Earth that look stunning - I figured a view from the ISS would be even more amazing.
Some of the ones I've quickly found on google appear to be photoshopped - as I'll find the same scene with only a few stars, another seemingly showing the entire Milky Way and then another plain black highlighting the earth.
Many Thanks!
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Airbus partners with Voyager Space to build ISS replacement
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Gateway: an overview of a proposed small, human-tended, space station orbiting the moon
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Chinese spaceship with three aboard docks with Tiangong space station
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Don’t drop your tools in space. When astronauts make mistakes.
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NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean
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NASA awards Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and Nanoracks with contracts to build private space stations
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NASA administrator statement on Russian ASAT test
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Russian actor and director back on earth after two weeks filming first film in space aboard the ISS
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Nauka module docks with ISS and performs uncommanded thruster firings, bringing ISS 45 degrees off nominal attitude; crew was never in danger
@Chris Bergin - NSF: Rob Navias with the NASA TV overview.ISS went 45 degrees out of attitude. SM (automatically reacted) to the issue, and then Progress thrusters were commanded to place the ISS back in the proper attitude.30 mins to the ability for MCC-M to command the safing of the thrusters. pic.twitter.com/5XIiJInVub
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China launches main part of its first permanent space station
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Humans could soon live in a giant space station orbiting Ceres
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A first for the International Space Station: A plant transplant
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Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
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Six Boeing-supplied 20kW solar arrays to augment existing International Space Station power system
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SpaceX launches first next-generation Cargo Dragon spacecraft to ISS on CRS-21 mission
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Astronauts harvest first radish crop on International Space Station
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It’s launch day for the SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the ISS
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After twenty years of service, the International Space Station flies into an uncertain future
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The International Space Station is getting a new toilet this year
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Scientists create exotic, fifth state of matter on space station to explore the quantum world
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China outlines plan to carry out eleven missions in two years to construct a space station and will soon select a new batch of astronauts for the project
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NASA sets May 27 launch date for SpaceX commercial crew test flight
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Final Dragon 1 completes return to Earth to conclude CRS-20 mission to International Space Station
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NASA selects astronauts for first operational Crew Dragon—USCV 1—mission to the ISS, including Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi
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SpaceX launches final Dragon 1 mission to the ISS
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NASA selects Axiom Space to build commercial space station module
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Boeing's uncrewed Starliner capsule will be unable to reach ISS after post-launch malfunction
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NASA aims for first manned SpaceX commercial crew mission in first-quarter 2020
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Jessica Meir has dual US and Swedish passports and will be the first Swedish woman to fly into space
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Sierra Nevada Corp. selects ULA's Vulcan rocket for Dream Chaser missions to the ISS
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NASA may allow private astronauts on the ISS for $11,250-$22,500 a day
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The logistics of the International Space Station
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Russia’s passive-aggressive reaction to SpaceX may mask a deeper truth
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The marriage of SpaceX and NASA hasn’t been easy—but it’s been fruitful
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ISS robot accuses crew of being mean
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Incredible 4K video of Earth from the ISS
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Russian Soyuz spacecraft depressurization caused by drilled hole
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German astronaut performs live with Kraftwerk from the International Space Station
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SpaceX launch CRS-15 to resupply the International Space Station
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Space junk mission deploys from the International Space Station
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Space station could be split to aid privatization, new NASA chief says
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