NASA held a ribbon-cutting on 2026-09-10 to mark the full restoration of its Guam Remote Station, which was damaged by Super Typhoon Mawar in 2023.^[1] Without the station, the International Space Station could lose contact with Earth for up to 20 minutes of every 90-minute orbit, an unacceptable risk for crewed missions, NASA said.^[4] Since the ISS's first crew arrived in 2000, astronauts and scientists have carried out more than 4,000 experiments aboard the station.^[7] Microgravity research has produced insights into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and heart disease, conditions affecting millions of people.^[8] NASA described the ISS's creation as 'the most complex international collaboration ever undertaken,' involving the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and European Space Agency member countries.^[6]