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On 2 January 2004, a minor air leak was detected on board the ISS. [2] At one point, five pounds of air per day were leaking into space and the internal pressure of the ISS dropped from nominal 14.7 psi down to 14.0 psi, although this did not pose an immediate threat to Michael Foale and Aleksandr Kaleri, the two astronauts on board.
The politics of the International Space Station have been affected by superpower rivalries, international treaties, and funding arrangements. The Cold War was an early factor, overtaken in recent years by the United States' distrust of China. The station has an international crew, with the use of their time, and that of equipment on the station ...
The ISS is helping further advance near-Earth space exploration and realisation of prospective programmes of research and exploration of the Solar system, including the Moon and Mars." [ 61 ] A crewed mission to Mars may be a multinational effort involving space agencies and countries outside the current ISS partnership.
Helium leaks and a thruster issue then threatened to delay Starliner's docking. Five days after docking at the ISS on June 6, NASA and Boeing said the spacecraft was experiencing five "small ...
Two-time space voter Kathleen Rubins [1] [2] posing in front of a "voting booth" on the International Space Station, 2020. Many people have cast votes during spaceflight. Voting from space has some inherent difficulties, as delivering paper ballots to and from a space station—as one would do for a soldier stationed overseas—would be cost ...
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is now scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and return to Earth on June 22, NASA said on Friday, giving more time to finalize planning for the ...
SpaceX Crew-8 splashed down on Friday, nearly two months later than planned due to issues with Boeing's Starliner and poor weather from hurricanes.
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.