space station

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Throughout the 2010s, American astronauts reached the space station by hitching rides on Russian Soyuz rockets, until a burgeoning private-sector spaceflight industry stepped in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Most notably, the agency scrapped long-standing plans to build a space station orbiting the moon, called Gateway.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Last year, he slashed the budget at numerous science agencies, including NASA, which shifted the agency’s priorities around Artemis, and killed the planned lunar Gateway space station that was supposed to orbit the moon.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

We designed and built the suite of robotic systems that still operates a space station, even as you and I speak today.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

As the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Salyut space station, the three cosmonauts made their way on board.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson