Earlier this week, the NASA Office of Inspector General released a report, found here, titled NASA’s Efforts to Maximize Research on the International Space Station. The report itself , like most NASA OIG reports is very well written and provides excellent background information on the subject. For anyone interested in the approach to science being performed […]
The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station got off to a perfect start yesterday evening with the launch of an Ariane V rocket carrying the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-4, “Albert Einstein.” There is one more ATV planned for ISS, after which the European Space Agency will supply a modified version of the propulsion […]
The countdown is underway at Kourou, French Guiana for this evening’s launch of the European ATV supply ship “Albert Einstein” to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled aboard the Ariane V booster at precisely 6:52:11 p.m. local (5:52:11 p.m. US EDT.) Today’s launch will mark the fourth flight of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, and the heaviest […]
Canadian astronaut and Commander of Expedition 35 Chris Hadfield, is preparing to return to Earth this evening, along with fellow travelers American Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. Undocking is scheduled at 7:08 p.m. EDT, with de-orbit burn occurring at 9:37 and landing in Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. (8:31 a.m. local) This “expedition” may be one for the record books. Chris Hadfield has […]
Seven hours and fifty minutes after a flawless liftoff from Baikonur at 2:42 AM Friday morning (local), the three person crew aboard Expedition 35’s Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft opened the spacecraft’s hatch and entered the International Space Stations’s Poisk module. The new record breaking fast ascent, which was accomplished in four orbits, had been employed on three previous Progress resupply missions but this […]
NASA Press Release: More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for Tuesday, March 26. Dragon’s return date, originally scheduled for March 25, was postponed due to inclement weather developing near its targeted splashdown site in the Pacific […]
CASIS is steadily expanding its portfolio of research to be conducted aboard the International Space Station. On March 14, it issued a Request for Information looking for partners to assist with expanding the scope of non-embryonic stem cell research. The RFI specifically seeks organizations with expertise in payload development and integration which can make the process […]
Source: RIA Novosti After 5 months aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 34 landed safely in Kazakhstan during late Friday night U.S. time. Carrying Russian crew members Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin and American Kevin Ford, the Soyuz capsule landed at 7:06 AM Moscow time 30 miles north of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan. The three remaining astronauts aboard ISS will have […]
When President Bush introduced the Vision for Space exploration 9 years ago, long term prospects for the International Space Station suddenly didn’t look so good. As it turned out, ISS ultimately survived VSE and Project Constellation, with much of the American section of the station’s scientific research handed over to CASIS, the Center for the Advancement of Science, which manages it as a U.S. […]
At a press conference held in Bigelow Aerospace headquarters, NASA Deputy administrator Lori Garver and Bigelow founder and chairman Robert Bigelow formally announced the partnership arrangement revealed last week by SpaceNews, one which had been in the works for nearly 2 years. Under the terms, NASA will pay Bigelow $17.8 million for a two-year test of its BEAM, Bigelow Expanded Activity Module, […]
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