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Tianzhou-3 will dock with the Tiangong space station to deliver fuel and suppliesThe station’s first three astronauts will then leave in a return capsule, with three more expected to replace them in October, sources say
SpaceX capsule reaches space station Recently refurbished "The space station has been undergoing this midlife upgrade for some time. New hardware up there, new operations, a lot more interesting experiments," said Cristoforetti. One thing she is particularly looking forward to is a new piece of equipment already waiting on board the ISS to go into operation in the space laboratory Columbus: a 3D printer to print metal in space. ESA's astronaut class from 2009: Cristoforetti and her colleague Pesquet (on her right) will fly to the ISS in 2022 and 2021 And the ISS has its own space balcon...
© Getty Images Over the past 20 years, the International Space Station (ISS) has housed more than 200 astronauts from 17 countries. The ISS has proven to be uniquely capable of enabling the development and testing of exploration technology and human physiology research for future Mars missions. In the next 10 years the ISS can play a critical role in overcoming hurdles on the road to human exploration of Mars, not only as a laboratory for key research topics, but as the starting point for simulated Mars missions that take humans from a zero-G environment to Mars analog sites on Earth. Areas ...