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Three to get ready: Astronauts (from left) Satoshi Furukawa, Akihiko Hoshide, and Naoko Yamazaki are all in training for duty on the space station.

Konnichi Wa, Kibo

The International Space Station says hello to its newest addition, made in Japan.
May 2008 | By Dan Barry

One photo returned from Genesis II last summer was a birthday surprise for Bigelow

Mr. B’s Big Plan

Robert Bigelow has put two mini-space stations in orbit. Now comes the hard part.
January 2008 | By Geoffrey Little

After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age, Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2007.

It All Started with Sputnik

An eminent space historian looks back on the first 50 years of space exploration.
July 2007 | By Roger D. Launius

Joe Tanner works outside the International Space Station during the STS-115 mission.

Tools of the (Astronaut) Trade

What you'll need to assemble your own space station.
March 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Astronauts attach the Port 1 truss to the International Space Station in 2002.

How Things Work

Space Station Truss
March 2007 | By Adam Pitluk

glowing thrusters of a Progress spacecraft

How does the International Space Station dodge space junk?

The 200-ton orbiting behemoth can get out of harm's way, but not very quickly.
March 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

The first three paying astronauts (left to right, Greg Olsen, Mark Shuttleworth, and Dennis Tito) found that comfort was not guaranteed with their tickets. Enduring the rigors of spaceflight that professionals do was yet another price to pay.

Space Trippers

Did the first paying guests aboard the international space station get their $20 million worth?
November 2006 | By Craig Mellow

By the time the author visited the space station in 2001, the view through the window of a docked shuttle (here, Discovery) had become part of life in orbit.

Shuttle Stop

The tensest moment in spaceflight: Docking with a 100-ton space station while orbiting Earth at five miles per second.
May 2006 | By Thomas D. Jones

The Soyuz lifts off on October 14, 2004, bound for the space station.

Leroy's Launch

To watch a friend begin his expedition to the International Space Station, our correspondent travels to emptiest Kazakhstan.
July 2005 | By George C. Larson

Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, playing with a water droplet last October, arrived and departed on a Soyuz.

The First 1,000 Days

Ghost alarms, foul odors, and a tourist season? Life aboard the International Space Station.
July 2004 | By Thomas D. Jones

Backgrounder: State of the Station

The International Space Station is on hold while NASA answers calls for attention in the order in which they are received.
November 2003 | By Tony Reichhardt

Growing Pains

It's the one area of space science in which you get to eat the experiment.
September 2003 | By Robert Zimmerman

Fallen Star

A Russian-born journalist penetrates mission control for Mir's final moments.
July 2001 | By Anatoly Zak

Particle Man

Sam Ting is on a mission: find the other half of the universe.
May 2001 | By Andrew Lawler

Window on the World

It's only a small pane in the International Space Station.
May 2000 | By Leonard David

Although MOL borrowed ideas and hardware (including a modified Gemini space capsule) from NASA, its reconnaissance mission was strictly classified.

A Sudden Loss of Altitude

Meet the MOL-men. Prepared to make space history, these military pilots instead became a footnote to it.
July 1998 | By Carl Posey

Safe harbor: A Soyuz (foreground) and Progress supply vehicle docked to the International Space Station in August 2007.

United We Orbit

It's a story of spacecraft meets spacecraft.
January 1997 | By James E. Oberg


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