International Space Station
Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit
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| 2025 | Final pair of two new solar arrays planned to be delivered to the ISS in a future mission. |
| October 2024 | Axiom Space plans to launch its fourth mission to the International Space Station. |
| September 12 2024 | Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis performed the first commercial spacewalk during the Polaris Dawn spaceflight operated by SpaceX. |
| June 1 2024 | SpaceX cancelled its planned lunar tourism project with Yusaku Maezawa, which was originally announced in 2018. |
| January 2024 | Axiom Space completes its third Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station. |
| June 2023 | Third pair of new solar arrays delivered to the ISS aboard SpaceX CRS-28 mission. |
| June 29 2023 | Virgin Galactic conducts Galactic 01, its first commercial spaceflight, marking a significant milestone in commercial space tourism. |
| May 2023 | Axiom Space launches its second Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station, continuing private space tourism efforts. |
| 2022 | A comprehensive study assessed the air pollution impacts of rocket launches and space industry activities, analyzing climate change and ozone layer effects from the 2019 space industry and a projected future scenario based on the 'billionaire space race', recommending potential regulatory measures. |
| 2022 | Bigelow Aerospace planned to launch the B330 expandable habitation module to low lunar orbit using a Vulcan rocket by the end of the year. |
| 2022 | Research and Markets releases a report projecting the global space tourism market to reach 8.67 billion USD by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 37.1%. |
| November 2022 | Second pair of new solar arrays delivered to the ISS aboard SpaceX CRS-26 mission. |
| April 2022 | Axiom Space conducts first Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station, marking a significant milestone in private space tourism. |
| February 2022 | Jared Isaacman announces the Polaris Program, a three-mission space tourism initiative aimed at advancing private space exploration. |
| December 2021 | FAA announced it would recognize space travelers on its official website starting in 2022, ending the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings program. |
| December 2021 | Japanese nationals Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano became space tourists aboard Soyuz MS-20. |
| November 2021 | A virtual reality exhibit called The Infinite, featuring life aboard the ISS, was announced. |
| November 24 2021 | Launch of the Prichal module, which docked to the ISS after the Nauka module. |
| October 2021 | Space Adventures stated that their planned Space Adventures Crew Dragon mission contract with SpaceX had expired, though potential future partnership opportunities remained open. The original mission was to send up to four tourists to low Earth orbit for a few days. |
| October 14 2021 | Prince William criticized space tourism, suggesting entrepreneurs should focus on saving Earth and highlighting concerns about 'climate anxiety' among younger generations. |
| September 16 2021 | The Inspiration4 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first all-civilian crew to fly an orbital space mission, spending almost three days in orbit aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience. |
| July 21 2021 | Nauka (MLM-U) module was launched, representing a significant addition to the Russian segment of the International Space Station. |
| July 20 2021 | Blue Origin successfully launches New Shepard rocket with four passengers, reaching a high altitude and demonstrating its potential for space tourism. |
| July 11 2021 | Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity completes a successful test flight with four passengers, reaching an altitude of nearly 90 km. |
| June 2021 | First pair of new solar arrays delivered to the ISS aboard SpaceX CRS-22 mission. |
| April 2021 | Science Power Module (NEM) was cancelled and proposed to be used as the core module for the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). |
| January 2021 | NASA announced plans to upgrade the International Space Station's solar arrays by installing new arrays on top of all eight existing arrays. |
| December 6 2020 | The NanoRacks Bishop Airlock Module was launched to the ISS on SpaceX CRS-21, built by NanoRacks, Thales Alenia Space, and Boeing, to deploy CubeSats and other external payloads. |
| October 2020 | Critical system failures on the ISS Russian segment, with simultaneous malfunctions of the toilet, oven, and Elektron oxygen generator, requiring emergency repairs by cosmonauts. |
| August 2020 | Scientists reported that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria were found to survive for three years in outer space, supporting the panspermia hypothesis about life's potential distribution throughout the universe. |
| June 7 2019 | NASA announced plans to allow private astronauts on the International Space Station starting in 2020, using SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing Starliner spacecraft, with a daily rate of 35,000 USD per astronaut. |
| 2018 | PEW Research Center conducted a survey identifying top motivations for space tourism, including unique experiences, viewing Earth from space, and learning about the world. |
| 2018 | Orion Span announced plans to launch Aurora Space Station, a luxury space hotel in orbit, offering six guests a 12-day stay for $9.5 million in a pill-shaped hotel with cabins measuring approximately 12.9 x 4.8 metres. |
| September 2018 | Elon Musk revealed Yusaku Maezawa as the passenger for the planned Moon trip during a livestream, with Maezawa intending to bring 6-8 artists on the #dearMoon project to inspire new art. |
| February 2018 | Musk announced that the Falcon Heavy rocket would not be used for crewed missions, and the proposal was changed to use the Starship launch system instead. |
| 2017 | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida launched a worldwide space tourism course, expanding academic offerings in the emerging field of space tourism. |
| November 2017 | Paolo Nespoli recorded two spoken voice recordings (in English and Italian) for Wikipedia during Expedition 52/53, marking the first content created in space specifically for Wikipedia. |
| February 2017 | Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had received substantial deposits from two individuals for a potential Moon loop flight, with the mission cost estimated at approximately US$70 million. |
| 2016 | Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was added to the International Space Station. |
| May 2016 | XCOR Aerospace halts development of the Lynx suborbital vehicle, which was designed to take off from a runway and potentially fly up to four times per day. |
| September 2015 | The Golden Spike Company's website was quietly taken offline. |
| October 2014 | Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise breaks up during a test flight over the Mojave Desert, causing a significant setback after over 700 tickets had been sold for future commercial flights. |
| 2013 | The Golden Spike Company became inactive. |
| May 2013 | Commander Chris Hadfield filmed the first music video in space, performing David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' on board the International Space Station. |
| April 3 2013 | Scientists reported potential hints of dark matter detection by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), noting an unexplained excess of high-energy positrons in Earth-bound cosmic rays. |
| 2011 | Sergey Krasnov suggested conducting a shorter version of the MARS-500 isolation experiment on the International Space Station to study long-term space mission challenges. |
| 2011 | First Orbit documentary film released, matching the ISS orbit to Vostok 1 and capturing footage of the view Yuri Gagarin saw during his pioneering orbital space flight. |
| 2011 | Space Adventures predicts 140 space tourists could reach orbit by 2020, though this projection was not realized. |
| 2011 | Completion of the US Orbital Segment with the installation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer during the STS-134 mission. |
| February 2011 | NASA chief Charles Bolden stated that any future mission to Mars would likely be a global effort, highlighting the potential for international collaboration in space exploration. |
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