Source: Rianovosti, Russianspaceweb In another sign that after years of decay and delays, Russia is serious about revamping its space infrastructure, Vladimir Popovkin announced today that his agency Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch a lunar orbiter mission in 2015 aboard a Soyuz-2. Scheduled to lift off out of the yet to be completed Vostochny space launch complex in the […]
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 […]
Editors note: I listened with added interest to the Jimmy Buffest concert tonight, brought live via Sirius / XM from East Troy, Wisconsin, in the hopes that he would dedicate a song to Neil Armstrong. Better known for extolling the virtues of boats, beaches bars and bikinis, Jimmy has always maintained a strong interest in space exploration, […]
UPDATE: Watch Curiosity’s landing (August 6th 1:31 AM Eastern) here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/ Best of luck to NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter and Curiosity Cam rover as it approaches Mars touchdown today Final pre-landing briefing via NASAJPL at http://ustre.am/25IX
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