The "Manned Orbiting Laboratory," or "MOL," was built to capture high-resolution images of Soviet targets on the ground. It was so advanced, it could pick up objects on earth as small as a ...

Their Boeing Starliner arrived at the orbiting laboratory but had experienced technical issues and returned to Earth by ...

One of those new pieces is a space suit on loan from NASA. “This right here would be the MOL, or Manned Orbiting Laboratory spacesuit that they developed for that program,” Renfro said.

Following the launch, the Crew-1 astronauts are scheduled to arrive at the space station for a six-month science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA said it is in the final stages of the ...