Airlock

NASA is tapping the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help with the ongoing construction of the Lunar Gateway. Set to act as an ever-moving station in orbit around our planet’s satellite, the UAE has now been tapped to design the airlock module on the Lunar Gateway.This move further solidifies the partnership between NASA and its international partners, including the AUE. The agency shared the news that the UAE will contribute to constructing the Crew and Science Airlock for Gateway earlier this week. This…

An artist’s depiction of the Lunar Gateway (left) and airlock (right).Illustration: NASAThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) is contributing to the lunar outpost that will be built around the Moon, building the Gateway’s airlock module in a sign that the gulf country will be more involved in NASA’s Artemis program.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThis week, NASA and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced a collaboration whereby the UAE will provide the Crew and Science Airlock module for the Gateway…

By NASA May 4, 2023Spacewalkers Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work outside the space station to install an experiment module on the Nauka science module with assistance from the European robotic arm. Credit: NASA TVCosmonauts Prokopyev and Petelin completed a 7-hour spacewalk, relocating an experiment airlock and accomplishing major objectives. They will conduct another spacewalk on May 12 for further upgrades.<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

The Nauka science module and Soyuz MS-23 crew ship pictured above north Africa.Photo: NASARussian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are about to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the pair’s second extravehicular activity this year.Three Astronauts May Be Stranded on the ISS After Disturbing Soyuz Coolant LeakThe spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 4:05 p.m. ET on Wednesday, according to NASA. The action will be broadcast live on NASA TV, as well as the space agency’s website. You can also…

NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi are pictured in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure during a spacewalk on April 28, 2023. The duo would spend seven hours and one minute in the vacuum of space routing cables and installing insulation readying the orbital outpost for its next set of roll-out solar arrays due to be installed after their delivery on the next SpaceX Dragon cargo mission. Credit:…

Bishop Airlock’s backstory Operation Take Out the Trash (that’s an unofficial working title) represented the first full open-close cycle of Bishop. According to Nanoracks, Bishop offers five times the current volume of what can be moved in and out of the ISS. It can support up to 144 units of payloads simultaneously (1 unit equals 10 by 10 by 10 centimeters). A trash container is pictured on a trajectory away from the International Space Station. Bishop is the “first commercially funded element” added to “the ISS…