The station, under development by US aerospace company Vast, is already being assembled and represents a significant shift toward privately owned orbital infrastructure as NASA prepares to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of the decade.

Crew 11 is expected to splash down off the coast of Southern California at 3:41 a.m. EST, closing out a 167-day stay in space.

NASA has selected Axiom Space for its fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2027.

International Space Station, where astronauts have lived and worked for 25 years, is visible to us on Earth. How to see it with or without binoculars.

NASA's Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired.

NASA said Tuesday that it has postponed the second mission of its Artemis program, pushing the highly anticipated launch from Feb. 8 into March. During a wet dress rehearsal of the rocket-towering system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,

Watch as the International Space Station takes shape in this time-lapsed NASA animation of its decade-long assembly, which began in 1998. Also, see a time-lapsed flyaround of the orbital outpost captured by the Space Shuttle STS-119 mission.

With the wet dress rehearsal, essentially a critical fueling test of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System moon rocket, now back on Feb. 2, NASA said in a statement that it can no longer target Feb. 6 or Feb. 7, the first two days of its launch window. The Artemis 2 launch window originally ran from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10.