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The actress Ariana de Bos in the movie ISS (from the promo released by the Bleecker Street company)

The International Space Station: how NASA plans to destroy it - and the dangers involved in the film and in reality

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On 19/1/2024, a film titled ISS was released in the US, which describes an international incident that takes place on the space station following a war between blocs. In reality, the astronauts and cosmonauts work together despite the conflict between Russia and the West, but the end of the station is already in sight
© Airbus 2023; Airbus Defense and Space GmbH 2023

Airbus unveiled a concept for a space station with artificial gravity

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Airbus offers a "multi-purpose route module" known as the Airbus LOOP. The station includes three decks - and for the first time in the journeys of the human race outside the atmosphere and gravity of the Earth - also a centrifuge that will create gravity for the crew members but only in a small part of the module Airbus offers a "multipurpose orbit module" known as Airbus LOOP. The station includes three decks - and for the first time in the journeys of the human race outside the atmosphere and gravity of the Earth - also a centrifuge that will create gravity for the crew members but only in a small part of the module
Welcoming the sixth joint NASA and SpaceX crew by the rest of the 68th crew of the International Space Station, February 3, 2023. Photo: NASA

Team 6 arrived at the space station in SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, with astronaut Emiri on board. Will stay in space for 6 months

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The Zvezda module, at the bottom left of this image, is one of six Russian segments of the International Space Station and houses the engines used to keep the station in orbit. Photo: NASA

Russia's withdrawal from the space station could lead to its early destruction and the severing of another Russian connection with the West

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Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said in a meeting with Vladimir Putin on July 26, 2022 that future efforts will focus on a new Russian space station.
NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Kjell Lindgren greet "Rosie the Rocketeer" inside the Boeing Starliner spacecraft shortly after opening its hatch.

After many delays - an experiment, so far unmanned for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

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The spacecraft, which was launched on May 19, 2022, is now attached to the International Space Station. It is "manned" with a dummy whose purpose is to maintain the spacecraft's center of gravity to simulate a manned flight
The International Space Station. Photo: depositphotos.com

The Russian space agency intends to leave the International Space Station

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However, no official announcement has yet been made, and even then, the Russians are obliged to give a year's notice in advance
Eitan Stiva in the Coppola Observation Module on the International Space Station

The landing of AX-1 and Ethan Stiva: The Dragon is on its way to land around 20:00

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Monday night there will be two broadcasts at 01:30 from the transmitter of the departure from the space station to the Dragon spacecraft, 03:30 the disconnection of the Dragon. The article also includes videos taken during the mission
From right to left, Shlomi Ben Avraham, Yael Hellman and Mika Ben Ari - students of the Herzliya Science Center who spoke on amateur radios with Eitan Stiva at the International Space Station. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The students overcame the problem and the question and answer event with Eitan Stiva took place

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Last Thursday, 14/4/2022, an event was held at the Herzliya Science Center in which students from several schools in Israel spoke with the Israeli Eitan Stiva during his stay on the International Space Station
Eitan Stiva performs the Israeli CRISPR experiment on the International Space Station. From NASA TV

The videos of the experiments conducted by Eitan Stiva as filmed inside the space station * The landing was postponed

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Today, Tuesday 19/4/2022 at four o'clock in the afternoon Israel time, Eitan Stiva and his three companions will enter the private space mission AX-1. They are supposed to land tomorrow, Wednesday at 15:17 Israel time
Eitan Stiva and Mark Pathy, also from the Ax-1 team, swam with the students of the Space-Startup program, an educational program for XNUMXth-XNUMXth graders and students from Canada, which uses the world of space alongside practices from the world of entrepreneurship

Summary of Eitan Stiva's experiments at the space station April 14-16, 2022

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With a short break for Seder Pesach, Eitan Stiva was busy all weekend with the Israeli experiments
The welcoming ceremony for the AX-1 crew members upon their arrival at the International Space Station on Saturday. Photo: Axiom Company

Day three of a celestial mission on the space station: Stiva completed the first part of the CRISPR experiment

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Throughout the day, Eitan Stiva performs a variety of scientific experiments from the International Space Station, in the field of remote medicine.
Soyuz launcher on the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Russia voluntarily disengages from the space programs, including the private ones

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The Russian space agency Roscosmos then dropped the launch from a launcher carrying satellites for the ONEWEB project as a continuation of punitive measures against the West in the field of space
A Soyuz spacecraft is approaching the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The head of the Russian space agency threatens: we will stop providing stabilization services to the International Space Station "from our side it will fall on the USA or Europe"

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Director of Roscosmos Dimitri Rogozin referred to the DMS-R facility used to navigate the station, although it was designed by the European Space Agency and integrated into the Russian component of the Zavezda space station * Also, the Progress cargo spaceships occasionally provide station orbit raising services * Elon Musk suggested that the SpaceX cargo spaceships perform the track repairs in place of the ruins
Prof. Yehezkel Bernholtz, Aina Pharma. PR photo

An Israeli drug to treat cancer took off for testing on the space station

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The drug, which was developed in Israel by the Aina Pharma company together with a remotely controlled laboratory of the Israeli Space Pharma, was integrated into a regular supply spaceship of SpaceX. Will be tested in zero gravity conditions in space
The space station was photographed from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor during the spacecraft's exit from it for its return to Earth on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASA's Johnson Center

The space station had to change course again to avoid space debris

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The bone in question was a piece of debris created during the breakdown of bone 23106 (Pegasus R/B). This is the upper stage of a Pegasus type launcher, which was launched on May 19, 1994 and broke up on June 3, 1996
space debris Illustration: depositphotos.com

Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon test in which a downed satellite exploded and the resulting debris threatens the international and Chinese space stations

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Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon experiment in which an old Russian satellite exploded without prior warning to those responsible for the space sector in the Western armies, the Cosmos 1408 satellite was launched back in 1982 during the Soviet Union
Final checks in the clean room. The nanosatellite TAU SAT1. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite was successfully released from the International Space Station into orbit

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The satellite was received strongly and clearly by 4 ground stations in Israel connected by a network between them: at Tel Aviv University, at the Science Center in Herzliya, at the Negev Gate and in Biruchem. In the coming days, it will be rerouted to its fixed orbit
Final checks in the clean room. The nanosatellite TAU SAT1. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

The first scientific nanosatellite designed and built at Tel Aviv University will be launched into space tomorrow night

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The satellite will be launched packed inside a Northrop Grumman Cygnus model supply spacecraft. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus will be launched on Saturday, 19:36 p.m. Israel time. The launch will then take place at the Atlantic Regional Space Center on Wallops Island in Virginia.
The event announcing the second Israeli in space at Beit Hanasi, 16/11/2020. Photo: Mark Neiman, CEO

The second Israeli on the way to space announced President Rivlin, the Ramon Foundation and the Ministry of Science

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Eitan Stiva, a former fighter pilot, is expected to take off at the end of 2021 in the Crew Dragon spacecraft as a space tourist for about five days.
Photo: The test site for the exposure of bacteria to space on the outside of the Japanese Kibo module on the International Space Station. The experiment tested between 2015 and 2018 how many years bacteria can survive in space. Photo: JAXA / NASA

Bacteria can survive a journey from Earth to Mars

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A Japanese experiment on the space station looked at how bacteria can survive in space conditions and transfer life from one planet to another.
Bob Benken and Doug Hurley walk the connecting arm to the launch tower. If their suits remind you of a Hollywood movie, it's no accident. Credit: NASA

Expected history today: two astronauts will be launched in a private spacecraft to the space station (live and continuous broadcast)

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Right to left: Chris Cassidy, Jessica Meir, Andrew Morgan. Photo: NASA

Watch: The 63rd crew took off to the space station * "The whole world joins the isolation on the station"

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The Israeli Stemmed radiation protection suit is on display at the International Space Station. Photo: Astronaut Jessica Meyer, NASA

The Israeli Stemmed radiation suit was unveiled on the International Space Station

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Schematic drawing of the layers of the prototype, which consists of micro solar cells, a molded reflective sunlight center and a thin protective glass.

NASA will launch into space a solar generator developed at Ben-Gurion University

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Prof. Giuseppe Fellini from the University of Bologna (right) and Prof. Beaz Pokroi from the Technion. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Bacteria in space

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