A retired NASA Glenn researcher recalls working on Space Station Freedom while he examines a set of plans from 1992 that were ...

and installing a mounting bracket on the station’s truss structure. This bracket will support the future installation of the International Space Station Rollout Solar Arrays (IROSAs), which are ...

The truss is a high-tech girder structure made up of 11 segments ... unit for a system that converts urine to potable water. The ISS' Urine Processing Assembly that removes impurities from ...

Once in place, Caltech's machine will operate without human engagement to construct a 1.4-meter diameter circular truss ... in the ISS' Bishop Airlock module, and will experiment with a way to ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams steps out of the ISS after 7 months in space. Over 260 miles above the South Pacific, she replaces a planar reflector and accesses the S0 truss structure to secure ...

Sometime in 2030, astronauts will pack up their belongings, turn out the lights, and depart the International Space Station (ISS ... and finally, the truss structure that makes up the backbone ...

The ISS is the largest single structure humans have ever put into space ... followed by breakup and separation of intact modules and the truss segment - the 'backbone' of the station. NASA explained: ...

Gentle initial thrusting of the fragile ISS truss structure is also possible using small conventional thrusters that employ deep throttling, several of which are being built and tested using state ...

The ISS has been orbiting the Earth ... That could include melting some of the metal in the truss of the station to be re-used to build new structures or vehicles in space, or even detaching ...

Over the past two decades, the International Space Station has grown ... melting some of the metal in the truss of the station to be re-used to build new structures or vehicles in space, or ...

“Most of those will burn up but some significant more dense and massive parts, like docking ports and parts of the truss structure, will likely survive.” The parts of the ISS that survive ...