Russia previews its post-ISS space station

Russia has already provided a look at the space station it will make after it leaves the ISS — if only a brief one. Reutersreports the country's Roscosmos space agency has shared a model of the future station (pictured above), nicknamed ROSS by state-controlled media. The orbital facility would launch in two phases, starting with four modules and expanding to six with a service platform. The design would accommodate four people in rotating tours and reportedly offer better monitoring of Earth than Russia gets from the ISS today.