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Sultan AlNeyadi makes history, becomes first Arab to complete spacewalk on ISS
With the conclusion of the mission task, the UAE commemorates AlNeyadi as the first Arab to undertake a spacewalk during Expedition 69, currently underway on the ISS

Private mission to ISS with Saudi astronauts scheduled on 8 May, according to Axiom Space, NASA
Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, will be the first Saudi woman to travel into space, and she will be joined on the journey by fighter pilot Ali Al-Qarni

Russia releases trailer for a film shot on the ISS, beats Tom Cruise to his dream project
Called 'The Challenge' the Russian film was shot in 12 days at the ISS. Tom Cruise was also supposed to shoot a film at the ISS, but the production of his film got delayed because of the pandemic. 'The Challenge' was produced by Dmitry Rogozin, director of Roscosmos

Watch: ISS shares an incredible video of how India appears from space
During one of its recent orbits of the Earth, the ISS or International Space Station took a video of the Earth which showed how India looked from space. The ISS flew across the skies of Bhiwani, Gwalior, and Jhansi, among several other places.

Return of crew stuck on ISS delayed by 6 months, cosmonauts to be back on Earth in September
Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio were scheduled to return home in the same spacecraft, but it began leaking coolant in mid-December after being hit by what US and Russian space officials believe was a tiny space rock

Russia to launch new spacecraft to rescue astronauts from leaking Soyuz module, will bring back damaged module
The Soyuz MS-22 was supposed to bring back the cosmonauts from the ISS in March. However, it was hit by a micrometeorite causing a critical puncture. Russia will therefore send the Soyuz MS-23 on a rescue mission, and try to bring the Soyuz MS-22 back to Earth.

Explained: Why Russian cosmonauts cancelled the ISS spacewalk
Ground crew spotted fluid leaking from the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module on the International Space Station as Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin were preparing for their spacewalk. A former cosmonaut said a micrometeorite entering the craft’s radiator may be to bla

Watch video: NASA releases stunning footage of spacewalk carried out by its astronauts
The power capacity of ISS will increase by up to 30 percent with the help of new arrays installed by the astronauts.

Free-flying water bubble and some astronauts: ISS latest post leaves internet awestruck
The International Space Station (ISS) has recently shared pictures of astronauts having fun observing a free-flying water bubble inside the Kibo Laboratory Module of the station

Russia says will 'quit International Space Station after 2024' days after US announced resumption of joint flights
Launched in 1998, the ISS has been a symbol of post-Cold War cooperation between US and Russia. However, tensions over Ukraine war have been threatening the collaboration

United States renews space flights with Russia to the International Space Station in rare cooperation
In a first, Russian cosmonauts will join NASA astronauts on SpaceX's new Crew-5 which will launch in September from Florida with a Japanese astronaut also on the mission

Watch: Anand Mahindra shares video of astronaut working outside International Space Station, calls it fascinating
ISS is a multinational collaborative project that is stationed in the lower earth orbit

NASA's latest post about 'scenes from an orbital restaurant' will leave you smiling
The pizza night aboard the International Space Station caught the attention of internet users after it was posted by NASA on 3 June

First private mission reaches International Space Station
The Axiom crew will now live and work alongside the station's regular crew: currently three Americans and a German on the US side, and three Russians on the Russian side

First fully private mission with four member crew launches for ISS; Tickets cost $55 million
NASA has hailed the three-way partnership with Axiom and SpaceX as a key step towards commercializing the region of space known as 'Low Earth Orbit'

First private mission launches for International Space Station; tickets cost $55 million
While private citizens have visited the ISS before, Ax-1 is the first mission featuring an all-private crew flying a private spacecraft to the outpost -- with the launch facilities rented out by NASA

Divided on Earth, united in space: The one place where the US and Russia agree to work together
After spending the past year together at the International Space Station, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to a world where the two countries are at loggerheads over Ukraine

ISS leaves internet users in awe with magnificent pictures of orbital sunrise; check photos here
According to the space station, the first two pictures of the orbital sunrise were taken when it was orbiting above the Pacific Ocean south of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula while the others was clicked when the ISS was in orbit above the Pacific Ocean south of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands

Ukraine crisis: How US-Russia tensions threaten the International Space Station and why India should be worried
For long, the ISS has been a symbol of post-Cold War cooperation between US and Russia. With the Ukraine crisis mounting, it risks becoming one more flashpoint between the two

US sanctions can ‘destroy our cooperation’ on the ISS, says Russia space agency chief
Russia and the US are the major partners in the ISS programme, which also includes Canada, Japan and several European nations like France, Italy and Spain