Composite materials are at the heart of innovations in satellites, propulsion systems and lunar exploration vehicles.

Roscosmos — began building the orbiting lab in 1998. It has hosted rotating astronaut crews continuously since November 2000, helping humanity learn to live in space so we'll be better equipped ...

SpaceX last year won NASA contract to deorbit ISS after 2030 Station has “very little incremental utility,” Musk says on X SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recommended hastening the end of the International Space ...

The space station has key supporters in Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in whose state the orbiting laboratory is managed. Cruz has long been an advocate of the space station.

Russia has repeatedly said that it wants to leave the ISS program early and is currently committed only through 2028 — a year after Musk would like to bring the orbiting lab down.

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In a post on Thursday, Musk suggested de-orbiting the space station even ... Friday that the space station is a "great research laboratory" and testing location for systems that will be needed ...

“There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars.” When asked if he was suggested that the orbiting laboratory be deorbited prior to the targeted 2030 date, the Department of Government ...