Aryabhata Mission

On December 19, 2025, NASA described SpaceX Crew-12 as the 12th crew rotation with SpaceX as part of the Commercial Crew Program and stated the crew would conduct long-duration science and technology demonstrations aboard the ISS.

The bill directs NASA, subject to appropriations, to maintain a flight cadence of crew and cargo missions on U.S. commercial vehicles at no less than the average of the previous three years while the ISS operates.

The bill mandates a Government Accountability Office review to examine how many nongovernmental human missions to the ISS are flown, whether companies fully reimburse NASA’s associated costs, and how those flights affect NASA’s science and technology priorities.

NASA seeks to extend the life of the current ISS EMUs to 2028.

SpaceX provides all operational crew transport to the ISS as of 2026.

Vast’s second space station, Haven-2, is expected to include multiple modules and aim to offer a continuous crew presence in low Earth orbit to fill the void left by the ISS retirement.

Sierra Nevada announced on 2020-11-17 that the first flight of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to the ISS will slip to 2022 due to development delays caused by the pandemic.

CMM was launched to the ISS in October 2020 on Northrop Grumman’s CRS-14 mission.

The ISS demonstration will take place inside Nanoracks' Bishop airlock module, which was launched to the ISS on December 6, 2020.

Roscosmos has a deadline for Russia’s work at the station, agreed with ISS partners, of 2024.

Axiom Space plans to fly a series of missions to the ISS as it develops commercial modules to add to the station beginning as soon as 2024, and those modules will form the core of a future stand-alone space station.

A group of European companies is developing a 2021-09-10 gigabits-per-second optical terminal called Osiris for Bartolomeo, Airbus Defence and Space’s external research platform on the ISS.

NASA approved plans to launch the NG-16 Cygnus at an 2021-08-09 launch readiness review that also confirmed the ISS was ready to accept the cargo spacecraft.

Axiom Space raised $130,000,000 in February to develop commercial modules intended to start placing on the ISS in 2024 and later form the core of a standalone commercial station.

Northrop Grumman assessed that the Cygnus had sufficient power to rendezvous with the ISS as planned early on 2022-11-09 to allow the station’s robotic arm to capture and berth it.

ESA options for post-ISS activity include buying services directly from commercial space station operators, reaching a barter agreement with NASA to exchange commercially bought flights with ESA, or developing ESA transportation capability for cargo or crew to offer to commercial space station operators.

NASA awarded a task order valued at $97,200,000 to Collins Aerospace to design, build, and demonstrate the next-generation ISS spacesuit.

Voyager Space and Airbus formed a transatlantic joint venture to develop and operate the Starlab space station with the goal of ensuring a continued human presence in low Earth orbit and launching Starlab before the ISS is decommissioned.

Axiom Space launched its first data center unit 'AxDCU-1' to the ISS in August and plans to interconnect at least three ODC nodes by 2027.

Cygnus XL was launched as part of Northrop Grumman's NG-23 resupply mission to deliver approximately 5000 kg of supplies, including scientific equipment, to the ISS.