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  1. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    Published: 29 Oct 2026

    NASA's coverage follows Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk through US Spacewalk 100, the 285th ISS spacewalk for assembly, maintenance and upgrades.

    View mission: US Spacewalk 100
    Outcome
    In progress
  2. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    Published: 20 Oct 2026

    NASA officials preview US spacewalks 100 and 101, planned for Oct.

    View mission: ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101
  3. SpaceX CRS-35 Dragon Docks at the ISS Harmony Zenith Port

    Mission: 2026Published: 15 Oct 2026

    NASA's live coverage follows the uncrewed SpaceX cargo Dragon of the 35th commercial resupply mission as it approached and docked to the International Space Station's Harmony zenith port.

    View mission: SpaceX CRS-35 (2026)
    Launch site
    Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex
    Outcome
    Success
  4. Cygnus XL Departs the ISS: Release, Burn and Re-entry Plan

    Mission: 2026Published: 9 Oct 2026

    NASA's live coverage shows the Cygnus XL spacecraft released from Canadarm2 at 11:44 a.m.

    View mission: Northrop Grumman CRS-24 (2026)
    Vehicle
    Falcon 9
    Launch site
    Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
    Outcome
    Success
  5. Crew-13 Prelaunch Briefing: Dragon Valve Repair and a Fast ISS Trip

    Mission: 2026Published: 30 Sep 2026

    NASA held the prelaunch news conference for SpaceX Crew-13 on Sept.

    View mission: Crew-13 (2026)
    Launch site
    Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
    Outcome
    In progress
  6. Crew-12 Pre-Departure Briefing: Spacewalks, Science and Going Home

    Published: 16 Sep 2026

    In a pre-departure news conference from orbit, the four Crew-12 members (NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev) recap their roughly seven…

    View mission: Crew-12
    Outcome
    In progress
  7. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    Published: 1 Sep 2026

    NASA's live coverage of U.S. Spacewalk 99, in which ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir worked outside the International Space Station.

    View mission: Expedition 75
  8. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    Published: 25 Aug 2026

    NASA's live coverage of US Spacewalk 98, in which NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot work to finish replacing a failed space-to-ground antenna (ESCAN) on the station's Z1 truss.

    View mission: US Spacewalk 98
  9. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    Published: 18 Aug 2026

    NASA's live coverage follows astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot as they prepare for and begin a spacewalk of about six and a half hours to replace a faulty Space-to-Ground antenna on the…

    View mission: U.S. Spacewalk 97
  10. How the ISS Was Assembled: Modules, Gyros, Canadarm2 and Cooling

    Published: 6 Dec 2025

    This documentary-style explainer covers the early assembly of the International Space Station, from Zarya and Unity in 1998 through the 14 shuttle missions up to 2003.

  11. ISS History: Assembly, Crises and the Plan to Deorbit by 2030

    Published: 12 Jul 2025

    A long-form history of the International Space Station, from early station proposals and Space Station Freedom through the Shuttle-era assembly, Expeditions, the Columbia pause, commercial cargo and…

    Outcome
    In progress
  12. Inside the ISS: How the Station Is Built, Powered and Lived In

    Published: 17 Feb 2025

    A documentary tour of the International Space Station, described as covering 9,700 m² and about 400 tons.

  13. How Shuttle Missions Built the ISS: Unity, Destiny and Canadarm2

    Published: 22 Nov 2023

    An animated explainer on how the International Space Station was assembled in its early stages using the Space Shuttle and the Canadarm robotic arm.

  14. Inside Tiangong: Crew Life on China’s Three-Module Space Station

    Published: 10 Dec 2022

    An explainer on daily life aboard China's Tiangong space station after the Mengtian module docked and Shenzhou 15 arrived for the first in-orbit crew handover, with six taikonauts aboard.

    Vehicle
    Long March