For the first time since humans began living in orbit, the International Space Station has every docking port filled, with eight visiting spacecraft clustered around its truss and modules like cars in ...

Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Dedication; Prologue; 1: An Alternative Plan; Shuffling the Shuttle to Assemble the Station; NASA's Tier-2: An Alternative Assembly Plan; The Interim Control ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman had delayed the arrival of a Cygnus XL spacecraft to the orbital outpost after an issue with its main engine was detected. Flight engineers were able to determine that it ...

While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space Station in the hands of commercial operators, the results speak for themselves.