Image Credit: NASA TV Following an uneventful approach to ISS after its launch from Wallops on Sunday, the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo vessel SS Janice E. Voss is for now, a component of the Station itself. The vessel was grappled at 5:36 am CDT by Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson who was operating out of […]
Image Credit: OSC The summer season of launch delays is still in full effect. From NASA: Orbital Sciences Corp. has postponed the launch of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station until 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 13, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. […]
Even NASA’s getting in on the act. This may be one of the best reasons to look forward to a large diameter Bigelow station sometime in the future.
Note: The OPALS experiment, which was carried to orbit in the trunk of the SpaceX CRS-3 Dragon spacecraft, is a telling example of what NASA can accomplish when it focuses on cutting edge technology development. NASA Press Release “Hello, World!” came the message from the International Space Station as NASA successfully beamed high-definition video via […]
One perplexing item regarding today’s SpaceX CRS-3 launch to ISS, and subsequent first stage landing recovery attempt, was the fact that we had yet to see any flight test of the new F9R test vehicle, with the only released video having been a ground level static fire. It seemed therefore, that even if first stage […]
At a noon press conference at the Kennedy Space Center today, ISS program manager Mike Suffredini, speaking from via phone, announced that the SpaceX-3 mission will remain on schedule for a Monday launch at 4:58: PM EDT. There had been concerns that the launch would slip due to the failure of a backup computer command […]
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