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Japan extends participation in International Space Station to 2030

Japan will extend its participation in the International Space Station (ISS) programme to 2030, education and science minister Keiko Nagaoka said on Friday, following the footsteps of ally the United States.

Reuters

So Long, Soyuz: Russia Is Leaving the International Space Station

Privatization can free orbital innovation from ground-bound politics.

Reason

Brickbats: December 2022

News of politicians and space bureaucrats behaving badly from around the galaxy.

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Japan agrees with U.S.-led plan to extend ISS operations to 2030

The Japanese government intends to agree to a U.S. proposal to extend the operation of the International Space Station until 2030, thereby delaying the station's planned retirement for six years, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

China successfully launches cargo spacecraft for its space station in orbit

BEIJING: China successfully launched its cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-5 on Saturday to deliver supplies for its space station, the construction of which is expected to be completed this year.

The Times of India

Cargo ship reaches space station despite jammed solar panel

A Northrop Grumman capsule has delivered several tons of supplies to the International Space Station despite a jammed solar panel

The Independent UK

Solar panel trouble on cargo capsule bound for space station

A newly launched cargo capsule has run into trouble with a solar panel after liftoff

The Independent UK

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Final module docks at China’s ‘heavenly palace’ space station

The Mengtian unit joins with a lab and core module to complete the Tiangong space station.

Al Jazeera

Space is increasingly hazardous — here’s how NASA dodges deadly debris

A 2021 Russian anti-satellite missile test, a 2009 satellite collision, and humanity's general messiness are still causing headaches for the International Space Station.

Inverse

'Dreaming of the Heavens': China launches final module to space station

China on Monday launched the last of the three modules that will comprise its space station, set to be the second permanently inhabited outpost in low-earth orbit after the NASA-led International Space Station.

Reuters

Arthur C Clarke award goes to ‘thrilling’ verse novel by Harry Josephine Giles

Deep Wheel Orcadia, set on a distant space station struggling for survival, is praised by judges for ‘making you rethink what science fiction can do’

The Guardian - UK

The International Space Station had to move to dodge space junk

A piece of what used to be a Russian satellite was coming uncomfortably close to the International Space Station. Space junk is a growing problem and has major implications for satellite services.

WEKU

SpaceX Ferries Astronauts Back to Earth after Half-year Away

Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida. Wet and windy weather across Florida delayed their homecoming. SpaceX and NASA finally gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three Americans and one Italian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

4 astronauts safe back on Earth after SpaceX Crew Dragon return

ORLANDO, Fla. — After weather delayed departure for two days, four astronauts climbed on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom on Friday to take a five-hour ride back down to Earth and conclude their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station.

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WEKU

Four astronauts return to Earth after nearly 6 months on the Space Station

Their mission ended Friday with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida. SpaceX delivered their replacements to the International Space Station last week.

Orlando Sentinel

SpaceX Crew Dragon brings astronauts home with Florida splashdown

ORLANDO, Fla. — After weather delayed their departure for two days, four astronauts climbed on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom on Friday to take a five-hour ride back down to Earth to conclude their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station.

The Independent UK

SpaceX ferries astronauts back to Earth after half-year away

Four astronauts are back on Earth after spending almost six months at the International Space Station

Reuters

SpaceX capsule splashes down, returning 4 astronauts from Space Station

The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after nearly six months of research aboard the orbital outpost.

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The New Daily

Ground control to Major Tom! Hollywood’s most tenacious actor on the verge of movie history

Veteran Hollywood mega-star and self-obsessed stuntman, Tom Cruise, plans to rocket into space and walk outside the ISS in new space movie.

The New Daily

Tom Cruise to make history with spacewalk stunt

Tom Cruise's next ambitious stunt will take him out of this world, literally, as he plans to film outside the International Space Station.

Daily Mirror

Tom Cruise in talks with Universal to be first actor to shoot film in outer space

Tom Cruise has held talks with Universal movies to embark on a new project that would see him become the first actor to shoot a movie on the International Space Station

The Japan News/Yomiuri

'Cosmonaut' suspected of cheating woman

HIGASHI-OMI, Shiga -- She believed he loved her. And that he was a Russian cosmonaut as he claimed. And that he actually needed money to return to Earth from the International Space Station. Now she is out 4.4 million yen.

Daily Mirror

Tom Cruise could become the first civilian to spacewalk for an upcoming film

Tom Cruise could go where no actor has gone before, as Universal chairwoman Donna Langley has hinted at plans to send the Hollywood star to the International Space Station

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Wakata arrives on ISS

WASHINGTON -- A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station at about 5 p.m. on Thursday (6 a.m. JST Friday), carrying four crew members including Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The Hindu

SpaceX delivers Russian, Native American women to International Space Station

SpaceX has delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station for NASA, including the first Russian to launch from the U.S. in 20 years

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