The Crew-11 astronauts reached the ISS on Aug. 1 and include NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. The mission was originally slated to end around Feb. 20, several days after the Crew-12 astronauts are scheduled to dock with the ISS sometime after Feb. 15.

The ISS witnessed an intriguing phenomenon in the stratosphere when Hurricane Helene hit the shores of the Florida coast, devastating the region.

The era of commercial space stations is set to begin in 2026, marking a revolutionary change in the history of space exploration. For nearly three decades,the International Space Station (ISS) has been the sole destination for astronauts and experiments in low Earth orbit.