This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing ...

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo tug developed under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program approaches the International Space Station’s Canadarm 2 in February. Credit: NASA ORLANDO, ...

A generation ago, when former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often joked that NASA could only pick ...

A concept presented by NASA March 24 calls for the agency to procure a module attached to the ISS that could serve as the core of a commercial station. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA, concerned about ...

This series, Space in Focus, explores key space trends, challenges, and policy issues that will confront the next administration as well as offers recommendations for how to navigate them. In the ...

After years of hesitation, the national security space community is finally boarding the commercial space train, one that many of us have been pushing for since the early 2000’s. The momentum is ...