When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

"Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build" debuts Nov. 5, 2025 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. "Operation Space Station: Science and ...

For 25 years, astronauts have lived and worked onboard the International Space Station (ISS), starting with the arrival of its first occupants on November 2, 2000. Built through a partnership between ...

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats ...

Premieres Wednesdays Nov. 5 and 12, 2025 / Stream with KPBS+ / Encores Sunday, Nov. 9 and 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m.

Since their arrival, there have always been people on the ISS, a continuous presence that is by far the longest in the history of spaceflight. NASA had planned to celebrate 25 years of humans on the ...

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

Even without the ISS, some humans will stay off planet for the foreseeable future. There is no plan to stop the continuous habitation of space. The spiritual successor of the ISS will likely be ...

Operation Space Station will air on November 5th and 12th, with the first part, High-Risk Build, focusing on the engineering and construction of the ISS. Part two, Science and Survival, will tell the ...

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the ...