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Former NASA chief criticizes 'schizophrenic' US space policy regarding Russia
https://www.space.com/us-space-policy-r … izophrenic

Bezos’s ‘Orbital Reef’ Space Station Moves One Step Closer to Reality
https://gizmodo.com/orbital-reef-space- … 1849445979

China grows rice, other plants in space as part of Tiangong station experiment
https://www.scmp.com/video/china/319072 … experiment

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Russia Says the International Space Station Is a Dangerous, Decrepit Mess
https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-in … -dangerous
"An avalanche-like process of equipment failure is beginning, cracks are appearing."

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Must be in only the Russian pieces...
Oh wait that was the MIR station....
Sounds more like sour grapes.

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Bezos Blue Origin had to abort, not sure if it has an impact on space station plans.

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Inflatable burst test performed.
"Ultimate Burst Pressure" test on a mockup of its low-Earth orbit space dwelling.

The team was thrilled to learn the house didn't pop until it reached 192 pounds per square-inch (psi), exceeding the safety requirement of 182.4 psi.

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Good news. 

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Hilton joins private space station Starlab as hotel partner, to design astronaut suites and facilities

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/19/hilton- … uites.html

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Russia space chief backtracks on minimum date Roscosmos will leave ISS

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-iss-lea … 28-1745223

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China's New Space Station Has a Big Role to Play—Scientifically and Diplomatically
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/chinas- … 31506.html

When the International Space Station (ISS) goes out of service in 2030, low-Earth orbit won’t be empty of cosmic labs. Already flying—if only partially constructed—is China’s two-module (soon to be three) Tiangong space station. Compared to the 16-module ISS, China’s orbiting platforms is a modest machine, but as Popular Science reports in a story that nicely frames China’s overall ambitions in space, Tiangong has a big role to play.

The station’s third module, known as Mengtian (“dreaming of the heavens”) measures 59 ft. (18 m) long and 14 ft. (4 m) wide and weighs-in at 20 metric tons. Set to launch before the end of 2022, it will join the Tianhe core module and the Wentian experiment modules, already in orbit.

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
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China Manned Space Programme: Its Achievements and Future Developments
http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/cop … ech20E.pdf

Two phases to implement the station project

China’s manned space programme has
comprehensively entered into the stage of Space Station construction. The construction is well under way following the two-phase plan:
– Phase 1: Space Lab
– Phase 2: Space Station

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The SpaceStation (right) and TiangongStation (left) flying above

St. Pete Beach coastal city in Florida.
https://twitter.com/sonicgabe/status/15 … 0638837760

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Earth viewed from Tiangong Space Station
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 6698605574

'A glimpse into astronaut CAI Xuzhe's living quarters in Wentian Laboratory Module.'
https://twitter.com/CNAstronauts/status … 9852505089

Chinese taikonaut WangYaping said the students who watched her first TiangongLecture had grown up and some of them are now working at China’s space industry
https://twitter.com/wulei2020/status/15 … 1617197056

Your delivery is being prepared.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1582051114941566976
Northrop Grumman's next cargo mission to the Space_Station
will deliver new experiments studying the dynamics of mudflows, growing crops in space, and fertility treatments—all for the benefit of humanity

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Orbit Fab secures new investor to support satellite refueling efforts
https://spacenews.com/orbit-fab-secures … g-efforts/

New batch of amazing photos captured by Chinese astronauts released
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202210/1277710.shtml

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They are launching something else?

'Turns out Long March 5B (CZ5B) rockets will remain active even after construction of Tiangong Space Station (CSS), regardless of its uncontrolled ultra-heavy debris issue.'

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 8553993216

Inside the Hilton space hotel opening in 2027 with suites that orbit Earth

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/in … g-28110773

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Shenzhou XV astronauts to conduct first spacewalk

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Shen … k_999.html

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NASA updates plans for use of commercial space stations

https://spacenews.com/nasa-updates-plan … -stations/

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Yes, Axiom has been building modules to add and continue the ISS as well as to undock once it must go away.

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China Wants to Make Its Brand-New Space Station Even Bigger
https://gizmodo.com/china-make-brand-ne … 1850173974

NASA's Lunar Gateway Station or simply Gateway, is probably real now, the first planned extraterrestrial space station in lunar orbit but back in LEO.

How many of these will become real or remain very expensive studies and costly power point slideshow presentation?

ISRO Space Station (ISS) is a planned space station to be constructed by India and operated by Indian Space Research Organisation. Starlab is the name given to the planned LEO space station designed by Nanoracks. Russian Orbital Service Station a proposed Russian orbital space station scheduled to begin construction in 2027. Orbital Reef will offer a Space Hotel they say, a planned low Earth orbit (LEO) space station designed by Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada Corporation's Sierra Space for tourist flight. From Europe there was Columbus Man-Tended Free Flyer (MTFF) was a cancelled ESA program. B330 previously known as the Nautilus space complex module and was an inflatable space habitat being privately developed by Bigelow Aerospace. Excalibur Almaz was a private spaceflight company now bankrupt which planned to provide a variety of space station style missions using old Russian TKS Soviet era spacecraft. In Year 2013 Dula, J. Buckner Hightower and Excalibur Almaz Ltd. were brought to court under the charges of fraud of $300,000 for the planned asteroid mining project. The case ended with conciliation in January 2014. Founded Isle of Man 2005 Defunct in year 2016, they also offered Asteroid Mining.
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Crew5 safely splashed down off the coast of Florida near Tampa

https://twitter.com/NASA_Johnson/status … 2868125696

How does the Crew Dragon Spacecraft work? (SpaceX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osq_a30_Jd8

The ACS chutes will be used to separate the Crew Module's Apex Cover that protects the drogue & main chutes and needs to be separated for them to deploy.
https://twitter.com/isrospaceflight/sta … 4625673218
The Main Pilot chutes will be used to extract the main chutes from their housings as part of their deployment process.

French Parliamentarians visit ISRO
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ … 631417.ece

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How often does the International Space Station have to dodge space debris?
https://www.space.com/international-spa … -how-often

Ever since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its cosmonauts in ISS Space_Station eagerly displayed Chinese flag alongside Russia’s multiple times. However, astronauts in Tiangong Space Station (CSS) TGSpaceStation have never responded correspondingly to Russia’s gesture.
https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 5921373192

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Shenzhou-15 astronaut passes through the packed Mengtian Laboratory Module to access a porthole view of the Earth

https://twitter.com/CNSpaceflight/statu … 8245492739

Canada agrees to ISS extension to 2030

https://spacenews.com/canada-agrees-to- … n-to-2030/

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I know people will push the latest Discord or Facebook thing but this Slashdot feed site "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters" started way back in 1997 I still find it to be one of the better news feed sites

SpaceX Says It Will Launch First Commercial Space Station By Mid-2025

https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/0 … 5#comments

Original article

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/0 … 683751058/

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We last evaluated ISS operations in 2021 and recommended that NASA address risks associated with cracks and leaks in the Station’s Service Module Transfer Tunnel.

https://twitter.com/NASAOIG/status/1655982028607614976

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Shenzhou-16 astronauts arrive at China’s space station

https://spacenews.com/shenzhou-16-astro … e-station/

17 people are in Earth orbit at the same time right now

https://www.space.com/record-17-people- … it-at-once

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Shenzhou XV crew lands in Inner Mongolia
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Shen … a_999.html

Over 7,000 pounds of new experiments, new solar arrays, and other cargo has arrived at the station after the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft docked

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/statu … 4579704832

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Shenzhou-15 and Shenzhou-16 lived and worked together for ~5 days

with their own version of fanfare trumpeting patriotic emotional Hollywood style music

https://twitter.com/CNAstronauts/status … 6450586625

CZ9 heavy rocket (150t LEO, 50t LTO) has its design finalized, and engines produced and tested

https://twitter.com/CNSAWatcher/status/ … 9083631617

Chinese commercial launch service provider Galactic Energy tests its Jifeng-1 supersonic target drone in NW China.

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1665636387696066562

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