J ohn McFall, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s first para-astronaut, has been medically cleared for a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), ESA’s Director of Human ...

The docked Soyuz vehicles also serve as the lifeboats for what is usually a six person ISS crew. With the leak located behind the toilet area in the orbital module, a plan was devised to patch the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched one of its most precise science experiments to date — the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES)—to the International Space Station (ISS).

On board the ISS, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin were closely monitoring the docking process. If something had gone wrong, the crew could have issued ...