That’s when the crew has to prepare for a possible emergency. For most ISS crew members, that means rounding up important items and closing the hatches between pr… See more

In Endurance, Kelly describes how cosmonauts Padalka and Kornienko summed things up waiting in the dark of their Soyuz capsule in 2015. According to NASA, mos… See more

Counting the October 24 maneuver, the ISS has shifted its orbit 32 times to dodge a chunk of space junk or a dead satellite. That’s about 1.5 evasive actions a year since 2000 … See more

At the moment, there are about 9,000 metric tons of junk orbiting our planet, ranging from paint flecks to whole satellites that have run out of fuel or otherwise stopped wo… See more