Tag Archives: International Space Station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying four astronauts aboard spacecraft lifted off Sunday evening as part of the company's first operational mission to the International Space Station under a partnership with NASA, TechCrunch reported Monday.

Barrios Technology, a Houston-based aerospace engineering company, has received a potential $364M contract to provide program support services to NASA's Johnson Space Center located in the Texas city.

NASA has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a potential $916M contract modification that will extend the company’s engineering and operational management assistance to the International Space Station through September 2024.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct spacewalks on Thursday, July 16, and Tuesday, July 21, to finish an over three-year initiative to upgrade the International Space Station's (ISS) power system, the agency announced Monday.

Virgin Galactic has signed an agreement with NASA to develop a training program that will help private passengers prepare for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station.

John Mulholland, vice president and program manager for the CST-100 Starliner program at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been named VP and program manager for the International Space Station in a move that will take effect June 26, GeekWire reported Friday.

NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Sunday, May 31, as part of the manned Demo-2 test flight mission.

NASA has announced the return of the “worm” logo to mark the launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft atop the SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to transport astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the Demo-2 mission. SpaceX’s first manned flight to the ISS is scheduled to occur by mid- or late-May, NASA said Thursday.

NASA has awarded Axiom Space a potential $140M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build a habitable module that would connect to the International Space Station to support the agency's initiative of promoting commercial use of the orbiting laboratory.

Axiom Space has received NASA approval to build a commercial destination module to help the agency continue  low-Earth orbit missions once the International Space Station is decommissioned. The company said Monday it won the NextSTEP-2 Appendix I solicitation that provides for the Axiom Station, a facility that would initially serve as an ISS attachment and eventually as a replacement.