Now that the shuttle programme is more or less back on the tracks, it has the remaining three and a half years left to service the ISS before shuttles are retired in 2010. This means that the next years will see a large number of shuttle launches, between 15 and 18, aiming to expand the station threefold, as well as possibly maintenancing the Hubble Space Telescope.

In the space no one will hear you scream. But that’s only because the International Space Station is so darn noisy! New Scientist reports that ISS may have damaged astronauts’ hearing.

The five space agencies behind the International Space Station still maintain that the station will be ready by 2010.

I’m sure Tiger Woods will be happy.

I have mixed feelings about cosmonauts playing golf in the International Space Station. Is this what the $26 billion spent on the project has bought us?

Of course, it is better than nothing, I suppose…