Kennedy Space Center News Release July 29, 2016 RELEASE 16-080 NASA Orders Second SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station NASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Commercial crew flights from Florida’s Space […]
One of the very best things about the NewSpace age is the fact that it is no longer necessary, or at times even useful, to listen patiently for a call to action from a State of the Union Address, or from a candidate or party platform to engage the United States in human space exploration […]
Overnight, Scott Kelly returned from his 340 day mission aboard ISS, landing safely in Kazakhstan along with crewmates Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov. Although considerably less American media attention was directed his way, Kornienko’s stay aboard the station was the same as Kelly’s as part of a joint mission. The complete NASA.gov story is included below, […]
Source: Fars News Agency Iran announced today that it has successfully launched a small monkey on a suborbital flight. This marks the second primate launch attempt for Iran, the first of which apparently ended in failure, and the death of the test subject, in September of 2011. Today’s attempt was carried out by the Ministry of Defence’s […]
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