ISS Update Press Conference
Washington DC
Thursday, January 8, 2026 · 22:00 UTC
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/01NASA will host a live news conference to discuss the International Space Station and its crew. On Jan. 7, the agency announced it was postponing a planned spacewalk originally scheduled for Jan. 8 while teams monitored a medical concern with a crew member currently living and working aboard the orbital laboratory. The matter involved a single crew member, who is stable. Participants in the news conference include: - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman - Amit Kshatriya, associate administrator - Dr. James Polk, chief health and medical officer, NASA Headquarters
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/03National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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/04International Space Station
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.