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A View of the Destiny US Laboratory aboard the International Space Station. The US Laboratory Module, called Destiny, is the primary research laboratory for US payloads, supporting a wide range of experiments and studies contributing to health, safety, and quality of life for people all over the world. Nasa

The International Space Station, pictured with Russia's ISS Progress 77 cargo craft attached to the Pirs docking compartment, orbits into a sunset 270 miles above the South Pacific on February 21, 2021. Nasa

The ISS Progress 76 resupply ship backs away from the International Space Station after it had undocked moments earlier from the Pirs docking compartment on February 9, 2021. In the foreground is the Soyuz MS-17 crew ship docked to the Rassvet module. Nasa

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, Jr. finish a four-year effort to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system during a spacewalk on February 1, 2021. AFP

The SpaceX Crew Dragon, centre right, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 resupply ship, centre bottom, and Europe's Columbus laboratory module as they figure prominently in this photograph taken during a spacewalk conducted by astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy on July 1, 2020. Nasa

The Cygnus resupply ship, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, from Northrop Grumman pictured on March 28, 2021 attached to the International Space Station's Unity module. AFP

A View of the Destiny US Laboratory aboard the International Space Station. The US Laboratory Module, called Destiny, is the primary research laboratory for US payloads, supporting a wide range of experiments and studies contributing to health, safety, and quality of life for people all over the world. Nasa

The International Space Station, pictured with Russia's ISS Progress 77 cargo craft attached to the Pirs docking compartment, orbits into a sunset 270 miles above the South Pacific on February 21, 2021. Nasa

The ISS Progress 76 resupply ship backs away from the International Space Station after it had undocked moments earlier from the Pirs docking compartment on February 9, 2021. In the foreground is the Soyuz MS-17 crew ship docked to the Rassvet module. Nasa

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover, Jr. finish a four-year effort to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system during a spacewalk on February 1, 2021. AFP

The SpaceX Crew Dragon, centre right, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 resupply ship, centre bottom, and Europe's Columbus laboratory module as they figure prominently in this photograph taken during a spacewalk conducted by astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy on July 1, 2020. Nasa

The Cygnus resupply ship, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, from Northrop Grumman pictured on March 28, 2021 attached to the International Space Station's Unity module. AFP

A View of the Destiny US Laboratory aboard the International Space Station. The US Laboratory Module, called Destiny, is the primary research laboratory for US payloads, supporting a wide range of experiments and studies contributing to health, safety, and quality of life for people all over the world. Nasa

UAE in talks with international partners to secure second mission to ISS

Exclusive: Astronaut programme chief Salem Al Marri says discussions with Russia and United States are under way, reports Sarwat Nasir in St Petersburg

June 17, 2021

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