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NASA’s Year Long Mission Gets Underway

NASA’s Year Long Mission Gets Underway

Launch of Expedition 43 / Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls It’s not a five year mission, and it certainly isn’t going anywhere “no-one has gone before,” but NASA’s longest manned space mission got underway on Friday with the liftoff of a Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft carrying veteran American astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady […]

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Sarah Brightman May Not Be Flying to ISS

Sarah Brightman May Not Be Flying to ISS

Source: RIA Novosti Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Saturday that  British soprano Sarah Brightman may be bumped from a flight slot to ISS in 2015.  According the report,  NASA and Roscosmos may jointly decide to extend the duration of what would have been her flight from eight days to a month, effectively erasing her opportunity. Given that the purported […]

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Space Adventures Sells Sarah Brightman, She Sells Space

Space Adventures Sells Sarah Brightman, She Sells Space

Space Adventures yesterday confirmed rumours that Sarah Brightman will become the next space tourist. The world’s best selling soprano will fly on the Russian booster on a 10 day trip to the International Space Station at a date which has yet to be determined.  The most likely time frame appears to be 2015, when two seats are opened on the Soyuz […]

NASA approves Year Long Station Mission for 2015

NASA approves Year Long Station Mission for 2015

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, […]

Sarah Brightman and the Future of Space Tourism

Sarah Brightman and the Future of Space Tourism

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 […]

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