For most of the International Space Stations’s life until this year, its story has been one of a project under constant construction. As anyone who has undertaken a major construction project while living in the house you are working on at the same time, it is often difficult keep in mind just how good the end product might be. We […]
NASA News Release WASHINGTON — NASA and its international partners have announced an agreement to send two crew members to the International Space Station on a one-year mission designed to collect valuable scientific data needed to send humans to new destinations in the solar system. The crew members, one American astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut, […]
In what turned out to be a rather busy last Friday in September for European space, an Ariane V rocket completed its 51st consecutive successful launch at almost the same time the ESA built ATV-3 resupply ship departed the International Space Station following a six month stay. The ATV was actually scheduled to depart earlier in the week, but was […]
Several news sources have reported that English Soprano Sarah Brightman and Space Adventures have scheduled a news conference on Wednesday, October 10 in Moscow, where it is expected she will be introduced as the next space tourist to visit the International Space Station. Brightman’s announcement would mark a resumption in tourism flights to ISS which were suspended when […]
The Orlando Sentinel reported that NASA administrator Charles Bolden met with White House officials recently to lobby for the agency’s plan to develop a small space station at the Earth – Moon L-2 La Grange point beyond the lunar far side. If approved, the station, would represent the first step along the so-called “flexible path”of space exploration which was […]
NASA announced today that it has set Sunday, October 7th as the launch date for the next SpaceX mission to the International Space Station. The mission, which will be the first of 12 currently scheduled under the Commercial Resupply Contract is set to lift off at 8:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, with a backup slot available for the following […]
Eleven years ago today, the 9/11 attacks wrought immense destruction on a human, and local scale in New York, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa, and with American and allied troops still very much at war in Afghanistan, it marks an event which continues to reverberate through history. On 9/11, exactly one American, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was off […]
The accommodations are hardly palatial even by current space station standards, but China has taken a major step in advancing its space ambitions with the first crewed mission to its Tiangong-1 Space Station. Although this is a short duration mission, and is intended to build the experience to lead towards a next generation station, following a path much like Soviet […]
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