Seattle’s Allen Institute will play a key role in a groundbreaking space mission this weekend. The Allen Institute for Cell Science is providing stem cells that will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket late Saturday night.

NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon on their nearly five-month SpaceX mission aboard the International Space Station. The crew — which included NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers,

Reaching the International Space Station (ISS) was a mission of the 140 crore Indians, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla -- the first from the country to reach the orbiting lab -- said on Thursday.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, who launched with the Crew-11 mission from Florida, shared footage of auroras taken from the International Space Station.

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission ventured outside Tiangong to do the spacewalk, which concluded Friday at 9:27 a.m. EDT (1447 UTC, or 10:47 p.m. in Beijing). It was at least the second effort for the crew to put "debris protection" devices on the three-module space station, following similar work on May 22.

Crew 10 is the first NASA-sponsored crew that will land in the Pacific Ocean. All previous NASA Crew Dragon flights ended with splashdowns off the Florida Gulf coast or the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA will pay for any designs it approves via a funded Space Act Agreement (SAA), rather than a firm fixed price.

The footage of Erin was captured by the Sen SpaceTV-1 camera system mounted on the International Space Station in low Earth orbit. The space streaming company Sen says its SpaceTV-1 mission launched to the ISS in 2024, and its public livestream began in December that year.