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Image caption: The four Crew-12 crew members pose in pressure suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. From left to right: Andrei Fedyaev, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir and Sophie Adeno. Credit: SpaceX.

NASA and SpaceX Crew-12 enters isolation ahead of launch to space station

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jsc2025e041955 (2-26-2025) — The official portrait of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission. Front row, left to right: Pilot Mike Finke and Commander Zina Cardman, both NASA astronauts. Back row, left to right: Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos and Mission Specialist Kimiya Yue of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). Photo: NASA

NASA postpones spacewalk at space station due to medical incident; Crew-11 mission cut short under consideration

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The agency said the condition of a crew member was “stable” but did not release details; maintenance and electrical upgrades outside the station have been postponed. There are concerns that the station’s operations could be affected without an orderly replacement of crew members.
Illustration from RSC Energia's patent documents for a rotating space station: Manned modules rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity using centrifugal force.

Russia has patented a rotating space station that will simulate artificial gravity

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RSC Energia patent documents suggest manned modules that would rotate around a central axis and generate up to about 0.5g; experts note that a patent is not an implementation plan, and that docking to a rotating station is a major challenge
The Zvezda module, at the bottom left of this image, is one of six Russian segments of the International Space Station and houses the engines used to keep the station in orbit. Photo: NASA

Russia's withdrawal from the space station could lead to its early destruction and the severing of another Russian connection with the West

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Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said in a meeting with Vladimir Putin on July 26, 2022 that future efforts will focus on a new Russian space station.
A Soyuz spacecraft is approaching the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The head of the Russian space agency threatens: we will stop providing stabilization services to the International Space Station "from our side it will fall on the USA or Europe"

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Director of Roscosmos Dimitri Rogozin referred to the DMS-R facility used to navigate the station, although it was designed by the European Space Agency and integrated into the Russian component of the Zavezda space station * as well as the Progress cargo spacecraft
The director of Russia's manned space program, Yevgeny Mikri, died of corona. Photo: Roscosmos

The director of the manned space program at the Russian space agency died of corona

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Astronaut Michael Hague and cosmonaut Alexei Ovechinin experience tremors during the emergency landing in Kazakhstan after a launch malfunction. Screenshot from NASA TV

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two crew members made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan after a launcher malfunction; They are in good condition;

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Artist's illustration of a lunar base. Photo: Spencer/Space Tourism Society.

NASA and the Russian space agency will jointly build a space station that will attack the moon as a jumper to Mars

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Simulation of the TGO probe performing a rocket burn to enter orbit around Mars. Imaging: ESA.

Exo-Mars: The scientific instruments on the Mars rover TGO have been activated for testing

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Moon colony. Image: NASA

Newt Gingrich: A colony should be established on the moon

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Imaging of a launcher preparing for a Soyuz rocket at the Vostoncheny Space Center in eastern Russia

The construction of the Russian space center Vostochny is accelerated

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