The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the way ... that you pick the fallen apple up and then throw it like a ball. The apple doesn't drop ...

The International Space Station is going a just tiny ... on this service or other websites or apps (like the forms you submit ...

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Several other space companies have plans to construct their own space stations as well, including Northrop Grumman, Axiom Space, Nanoracks and Sierra Space. NASA needs at least one of them on orbit ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar.

If the ISS didn't have some way to elevate its orbit, it would eventually fall deeper into the atmosphere and ultimately burn up, like a huge meteor. One day, however, we will be forced to abandon ...

Flying through Earth’s orbit are thousands ... very high temperatures. The ISS wasn’t designed for that, so it doesn’t have a heat shield. If you’d like to see the space station as it ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting ... that you pick the fallen apple up ...