The ISS Is Out of Parking Spots for the First Time Ever. Here’s Why

It’s getting busy in low Earth orbit, with a record number of spaceships now attached to the International Space Station while a total of 10 astronauts occupy the orbital lab.

For the first time since the ISS began operation 25 years ago, all eight of the space station’s docking ports are occupied, NASA revealed in a statement. The rare, orbital full house took place upon the reattachment of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL capsule, which was temporarily moved aside by a robotic arm…