International Space Station
What's life like in low-Earth orbit? A guide to the latest science, insights, and experiences on our favorite space station.
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Want A Ride To The ISS? SpaceX And Boeing Will Take You
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Russian Cosmonauts Report Sea Plankton On The Outside Of The ISS
![Space-Grown Vegetables Are Safe To Eat, Scientists Announce](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/U2F4DSSGICQTSMMT4O23UP344A.jpg?w=675)
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Space-Grown Vegetables Are Safe To Eat, Scientists Announce
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Burning Trash With Water [Video]
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Awesome Twitter Rant About Science Errors In ‘Gravity’
![How To See Tomorrow’s Historic Antares/Cygnus Launch To The Space Station](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/5FL3J2XBOO464GMAAOGTYW67IM.jpg?w=800)
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How To See Tomorrow’s Historic Antares/Cygnus Launch To The Space Station
![Spying On Thunderstorms From Space [Video]](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/7IDHUIMONOAKW45PJUPLFYTXXI.jpg?w=525)
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Spying On Thunderstorms From Space [Video]
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The 9 Coolest Space Photos From Astronaut Karen Nyberg
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What It’d Be Like To Drown In Space
![Astronaut Chris Hadfield Retires From The Canadian Space Agency](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/BCGZNH4TGE7SMHDIWW7PADZ2SU.jpg?w=678)
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Retires From The Canadian Space Agency
![How To Puke In Space And Other Important Things We Learned From ISS Commander Chris Hadfield](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/6SCJVZP47M5EG2UXOS3LOK3WG4.jpg?w=677)
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How To Puke In Space And Other Important Things We Learned From ISS Commander Chris Hadfield
![How To MacGyver A Million-Pound Orbiting Space Laboratory](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/GXOBGRWJHZ4PMQ2CEI2PHJDFZU.png?w=690)
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How To MacGyver A Million-Pound Orbiting Space Laboratory
![Watch Astronaut Chris Hadfield Cover David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’… In Space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/GU3Y2OWZZIIQM422U6OHG2AVSI.png?w=798)
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Watch Astronaut Chris Hadfield Cover David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’… In Space
![Space Station’s Giant Antimatter Magnet Finds Abundance Of Mysterious Particles](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/SHEZ4HJNMW5Y2R2OKEQEHWFIEU.jpg?w=678)
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Space Station’s Giant Antimatter Magnet Finds Abundance Of Mysterious Particles
![Video: A Timelapse View Of Earth From The ISS](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/4V3ZI2NM6KHLSFG3TOLTGTCEDU.jpg?w=525)
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Video: A Timelapse View Of Earth From The ISS
![NASA’s Newest Engineering Challenge: How To Change A Light Bulb](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/FF7EXA3MDUJWERKYDT2Z3S6TDI.jpg?w=677)
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NASA’s Newest Engineering Challenge: How To Change A Light Bulb
![NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Completes First Triathlon In Space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/NMEW5SCY7A7GAR5HJG5JFW2MFQ.png?w=529)
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NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Completes First Triathlon In Space
![Upcoming Space Station Cameras Will Give All Humans Live Imagery Of Their Houses From Space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/GXOBGRWJHZ4PMQ2CEI2PHJDFZU.png?w=690)
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Upcoming Space Station Cameras Will Give All Humans Live Imagery Of Their Houses From Space
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Japanese Cubesat Will Flash Morse Code Messages in the Sky This Fall
![Astronaut Don Pettit Creates the First Mailing Address in Space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/UK7GNRFZVQTTKPOT2XUJCEBRIE.jpeg?w=673)
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Astronaut Don Pettit Creates the First Mailing Address in Space
![A Series of Long Exposures Aboard the ISS Produces a Psychedelic Swirl of Stars](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/D3R3N5CZVLAU2I2XAI3BCIKLB4.jpeg?w=677)
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A Series of Long Exposures Aboard the ISS Produces a Psychedelic Swirl of Stars
![PopSci Q&A: How Nanoracks Sends Scotch, iPhones and School Experiments to Space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/FUUF7EWDPJ23ON4DYAJVRKDPAI.jpg?w=677)
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PopSci Q&A: How Nanoracks Sends Scotch, iPhones and School Experiments to Space
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How Well Does Scotch Age in Zero Gravity? A Distiller Launches Some to Find Out
![The One Millionth Photo Taken from the International Space Station](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/XXZN2LUIA32V7JOTWZTIL2ZDN4.jpeg?w=524)
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The One Millionth Photo Taken from the International Space Station
![ISS Video: Lightning Over Africa, Backlit By the Milky Way](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/2JLULZIMMOFICNS52FTRS5LQKU.png?w=693)
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ISS Video: Lightning Over Africa, Backlit By the Milky Way
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A Rare Final Look Inside Space Shuttle Atlantis
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NASA Commissions a Laundry Machine for the International Space Station
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With No More Shuttles on Standby, What’s NASA’s Plan if the Final Mission Astronauts Need Help?
![Dextre, the Space Station’s Robotic Arm, Will Try its Hand at Satellite Refueling](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/MYKTXO2FTO3O3TWUXOI7K46LOU.jpeg?w=525)
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Dextre, the Space Station’s Robotic Arm, Will Try its Hand at Satellite Refueling
![First-Ever Photos of Space Shuttle Docked At Space Station](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/AA4X5CREOOZYAOBPGHFOKXPO6Y.jpg?w=525)
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First-Ever Photos of Space Shuttle Docked At Space Station
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The World’s Biggest Space Experiment Launches Tomorrow, Ready to Find Dark Matter and Alternate Universes
![Polar-Mounted Laser Could Zap Space Junk, Protecting Satellites and the Space Station](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/6LBOOJLYLKUW6HX4E7RABJG33I.png?w=761)
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Polar-Mounted Laser Could Zap Space Junk, Protecting Satellites and the Space Station
![An Amazing Pic of Discovery Docking with the ISS, Taken from Earth](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/KNV4POIESYANJN3CH7UC33GPWQ.jpeg?w=525)
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An Amazing Pic of Discovery Docking with the ISS, Taken from Earth
![NASA Plans to Put Nonprofit Group In Charge Of International Space Station Experiments](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/QUUXQELESSG5EIGWYFXIA3IKAE.jpeg?w=659)
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NASA Plans to Put Nonprofit Group In Charge Of International Space Station Experiments
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The International Space Station Has Been Continuously Inhabited for Ten Years Today
![Earth Bacteria Survive a 553-Day Space Exposure on the Exterior of the ISS](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/IRH2IJRPFOTC55E465DJYF2NPA.jpg?w=525)
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Earth Bacteria Survive a 553-Day Space Exposure on the Exterior of the ISS
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A Section of the International Space Station Could Be Recycled into Crew Quarters for Asteroid Mission
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Last Shuttle Mission Will Test 3-D Video Docking System For Shuttle’s Replacement (+Video)
![NASA’s Orion Capsule to Be Reborn as Escape Pod for Space Station](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/JN2LS3DQ4T7NUKVKNY6KBN3HHQ.jpg?w=717)
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NASA’s Orion Capsule to Be Reborn as Escape Pod for Space Station
![An Astronaut Peeks Out from the Space Station’s Lovely New 360-Degree Window](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/NJU752EQ66N3UR4PJCUVAIETXQ.jpg?w=525)
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An Astronaut Peeks Out from the Space Station’s Lovely New 360-Degree Window
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Space Station Toilet Clogged with Calcium Deposits; Could Astronauts’ Bone Loss Be the Culprit?
![ISS Could Get its Own Electron-Beam Fabrication 3-D Printer](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/ZVEJBW2B3AKQAAB7WLRFPY5FTM.jpg?w=525)
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ISS Could Get its Own Electron-Beam Fabrication 3-D Printer
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Space Shuttle Unleashes Magnificent Plume of Pee
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Space Station Astronauts Toast ISS Kitchen Upgrades With Their Own Urine
![Call the Space Plumber: ISS’s Toilet is on the Fritz](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/57XIDHPOTYAKDYA5YDHNNSP7M4.jpg?w=337)
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Call the Space Plumber: ISS’s Toilet is on the Fritz
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Space Kimchi!
![The Buddy System](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/OYKLCK36LXHJQHZ6OKYPL6Z3J4.jpg?w=500)
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The Buddy System
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Eat Like a Taikonaut!
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NASA’s $19 Million Toilet
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Can a Small Start-up Build America’s Next Spaceship?
![ISS on space](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/18/FKDGKQI3WLXY27F2PMW4MRMS2U.jpg?w=315)
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After Columbia: The ISS in Crisis
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Is the International Space Station visible to the naked eye in the night skies?
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