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Most pandemic restrictions have been lifted in Michigan at this point, but that’s not stopping one group from trying to make sure they’re hard to come by in the future.

His space company Blue Origin hopes its venture will replace the International Space Station.

The growing commercial space industry, which for years has worked to reliably launch cargo and more recently humans to space, is now looking to build space stations that would populate low Earth orbit and eventually replace the aging International Space Station.

A Russian film crew bid farewell to the International Space Station crew before returning to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX. The crew travelled in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship to film scenes for "The Challenge".

An actress and film director dock with the International Space Station in a first for Russia.

The alarm went off as the space station's batteries were being charged, Russia's space agency says.

The majority of in-flight systems on the ISS have passed their expiry date, an official warns.

An unusual occurrence at the International Space Station sparked by the newly-docked Russian Nauka aircraft caused Boeing and NASA to reschedule Starliner's relaunch.

The 13m-long, 20-tonne Nauka laboratory is finally going into orbit after a delay of 14 years.

Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station have wrapped up a spacewalk that lasted more than 7 hours to prepare for the arrival of a new Russian module.

This was the first night-time landing for Nasa astronauts since Apollo 8's return 53 years ago.

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A trio of Russian and American space travelers launched successfully and reached the International Space Station.

This photo provided by NASA shows US astronaut Kate Rubins outside the International Space Station during a space walk on Friday, March 5, 2021. Rubins and Japan's Soichi Noguchi floated outside to complete unfinished work from Sunday's spacewalk. More mounting brackets and struts need to be installed for new and improved solar panels due to arrive in June. (NASA via AP)

Back dropped by the rotating earth, U.S. Army and NASA Astronaut Col. Andrew Morgan pauses for a photo opportunity during extravehicular activity (EVA) #64 at the International Space Station’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer worksite Jan. 25, 2020. Col. Morgan and Italian Air Force and ESA astronaut Col. Luca Parmitano participated in this fourth and final EVA to complete repairs on the AMS, a state-of-the-art particle physics detector. The emblems displayed on Col. Morgan's cuff checklist are U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (top) and U.S. Space Command (bottom). (Photo by ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano)(Department of Defense)

In this image made from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with the Soyuz MS-17 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS), blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (Roscosmos Space Agency via AP)MOSCOW – A trio of space travelers blasted off to the International Space Station on Wednesday, using for the first time a fast-track maneuver that allowed them to reach the orbiting outpost in just a little over three hours. NASA’s Kate Rubins along with Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled Wednesday morning from the Russia-leased Baikonur space launch facility in Kazakhstan for a six-month stint on the station. For the first time, they tried a two-orbit approach and docked with the space station in just a little over three hours after lift-off. Ryzhikov, who will be the station’s skipper, said the crew will try to pinpoint the exact location of a leak at a station’s Russian section that has slowly leaked oxygen.

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Here are answers to five questions about what “basic” life is like for astronauts on the ISS. As if they are going to a restaurant, astronauts can choose which food items they want off of a menu. On the ISS, astronauts use liquid soap, water and no rinse shampoo. Given the microgravity means, there is no up or down, and astronauts can sleep in any orientation, according to NASA. The station has small crew cabins with sleeping bags that astronauts sleep in.

SpaceX and NASA are preparing to launch astronauts into orbit Wednesday afternoon. If SpaceX does not launch during Wednesdays split-second window, the next try would be Saturday. Weather-permitting, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are set to ride SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on a test flight. It will be the nations first astronaut launch to orbit in nearly a decade. Watch live coverage here:NASA plans coverage of the SpaceX Demo-2 launch to the International Space Station to begin at 12:15 p.m.At 7:30 p.m., NASA/SpaceX will hold a Demo-2 post-launch news conference with Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

SpaceX and NASA are preparing to launch astronauts into orbit Wednesday afternoon. If SpaceX does not launch during Wednesdays split-second window, the next try would be Saturday. Weather-permitting, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are set to ride SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on a test flight. It will be the nations first astronaut launch to orbit in nearly a decade. Watch live coverage here:NASA plans coverage of the SpaceX Demo-2 launch to the International Space Station to begin at 12:15 p.m.At 7:30 p.m., NASA/SpaceX will hold a Demo-2 post-launch news conference with Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

SpaceX and NASA were preparing to launch astronauts into orbit Wednesday afternoon, but the weather had other ideas. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are set to ride SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on a test flight. It will be the nations first astronaut launch to orbit in nearly a decade. NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing in 2014 to transport astronauts to the space station in a new kind of public-private partnership. Development of SpaceXs Dragon and Boeings Starliner capsules took longer than expected, however.

Russia has not been able to control a cargo ship that they lost communication with shortly after its launch into space, with onboard video showing the spacecraft spinning out of control. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joins CBSN with the latest details.