Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. While this wasn't the first space station launched into ...

The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...