By Kimberly Hayek NASA is reducing its investment in Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft, announcing Monday that it’s lowering the number of astronaut missions and opting to make the next trip to the International Space Station (ISS) a crewless one. Boeing’s original $4.5 billion deal, a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, entailed six operational flights […]
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a collaborative orbiting laboratory and home for astronauts, continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000. It is a joint project involving space agencies from the United States (NASA), Russia (Roscosmos), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA), and Europe (ESA). The ISS’s primary functions are to conduct scientific research, including experiments in microgravity, and to test technology for future space missions.
