Category: International Space Station

China’s Advancing Space Program Leaves US Vulnerable in Event of Space War, Expert Warns

U.S. policymakers need to come up with a better space strategy, warned a space and security expert after China sent a three-member crew to its unfinished space station on Thursday. “To fight and win a space war against the Americans, the first thing that [the Chinese regime] will do is to knock out or blind…


Wine That Went to Space for Sale With $1 Million Price Tag

LONDON—The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric. Christie’s said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as $1 million to own it. The Pétrus…


False Alarm: No Space Junk Threat After All to SpaceX Crew

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk. It turns out there was no object and no threat, the U.S. Space Command acknowledged Monday. The false alarm is under review. Lt. Col. Erin Dick, a…


Cable Trouble Dogs Spacewalkers in European Lab Upgrades

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Spacewalking astronauts encountered cable trouble Wednesday while attempting to make improvements to the International Space Station’s European lab. Only one of the two lab upgrades was completely successful. NASA’s Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover installed a new antenna on Columbus, one of three high-tech labs at the orbiting outpost. It took a few…