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Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 - Four crewmembers aboard the International Space Station were set to depart Wednesday after a medical issue prompted their mission to be cut a month short — a first for the orbiting laboratory. American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui were set to undock from the ISS at 2205 GMT on Wednesday, after five months in space. NASA has declined ...

Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 - NASA is gearing up for the Artemis II mission , its first crewed flight around the Moon in over 50 years. In the upcoming days, the agency will roll the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for crucial final tests and rehearsals. This rollout will mark the start of final integration work, system testing, and launch rehearsals ahead of the ...

Wednesday, Jan 14th, 2026 - You can now listen to Fox News articles! Research conducted partly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) suggests that "microgravity" could help scientists fight drug-resistant superbugs, according to a report from SWNS. Microgravity is the condition in which people or objects appear to be weightless, NASA states. Experiments by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison show that viruses and ...