Photos: Blizzard 2016 Seen from the Space Station

The crew aboard the International Space Station captured a series of impressive photos showing the progression of a major snowstorm that impacted millions of Americans last weekend, providing a look at the huge blanket of snow and thick cloud cover over the East Coast.

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Photos: Tim Peake & Tim Kopra’s ISS Spacewalk

NASA’s Tim Kopra and ESA’s Tim Peake ventured outside the hatches of the International Space Station on Friday, successfully replacing a failed voltage regulator on the Station’s truss structure to restore the Station’s power system at full functionality after the failure of the component in November.

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Space Station Crew prepares for Urgent Spacewalk to recover ISS Robotics System

An unscheduled spacewalk is being prepared by International Space Station Crew Members Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra with great urgency aboard the orbiting laboratory to be ready to head outside as early as Monday to recover the Space Station’s Mobile Transporter that got stuck in a position between work sites Wednesday night.

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Photos: Three Space Station Crew Members return to Earth

The Soyuz TMA-17M crew of Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui and Kjell Lindgren made a safe landing in Kazakhstan on Friday after a space flight of four and a half months. It marked the fifth nighttime landing of a Soyuz returning from ISS, but the first to take place after sunset instead of the early morning hours.

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