Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning

The International Space Station is back to full strength with the arrival of four new astronauts, after the evacuation of a crew of four NASA astronauts, one of whom had an undisclosed health issue.

Using microorganisms to mine meteorites could be an effective way to extract precious metals in space, scientists say. This is the subject of an experiment aboard the International Space Station that examines how such mining in low-gravity environments could support space exploration.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully transported an international crew of four astronauts, including two Americans and one Russian, to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Crew-12 docked aboard the ISS Saturday at 3:15 p.

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Moving in for eight to nine months are NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrei Fedyaev. Meir, a marine biologist, and Fedyaev, a former military pilot, have lived up there before. During her first station visit in 2019, Meir took part in the first all-female spacewalk.