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New crew for ISS
The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Friday with a new crew of three onboard.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
The new crew – NASA astronaut Don… Continue reading
First Russian woman cosmonaut to ISS in 2013
MOSCOW – Russia plans to send its first female cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013, the federal space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.
According to Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin, Yelena Serova, the only female in the current… Continue reading
Coverage Set For Next Soyuz Crew Launch And Docking
HOUSTON — Fresh off the arrival of three new crew members at the International Space Station, the next trio of residents is set to launch to the outpost Dec. 21. NASA Television will cover prelaunch activities, launch and docking to… Continue reading
SpaceX Completes Key Milestone to Fly Astronauts to International Space Station
Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announced it has successfully completed the preliminary design review of its revolutionary launch abort system, a system designed for manned missions using its Dragon spacecraft. This represents a major step toward creating an American-made successor… Continue reading
André Kuipers makes a PromISSe
All the pieces are coming together for the next long mission by a European astronaut. Now it has a name and logo. ESA today revealed the name of André Kuipers’ mission: PromISSe.
ESA called on citizens of its member states… Continue reading
F9/DRAGON: PREPARING FOR ISS
Over the last several months, SpaceX has been hard at work preparing for our next flight – a mission designed to demonstrate that a privately-developed space transportation system can deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA… Continue reading
Russian cosmonauts launch defective satellite from ISS
MOSCOW, Aug. 3 Two Russian cosmonauts manually launched a mini satellite from the International Space Station ( ISS) during a six-hour spacewalk Wednesday, said the Mission Control center near Moscow.
Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyayev, who started the spacewalk with… Continue reading
New uses for Space Station
For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious missions deeper into space.
Future ventures could include Mars missions,… Continue reading
Boeing Prepares Space Shuttle Atlantis for Final Mission
- Dedicated workforce has supported shuttle program since 1972
- Mission STS-135 will deliver critical supplies to International Space Station
Boeing engineers and technicians are preparing Space Shuttle Atlantis and its payload for the program’s final mission, which is scheduled to launch… Continue reading
Thales Alenia Space delivers first Cygnus PCM to Orbital Sciences Corporation
New commercial cargo vehicle for the International Space Station preparing for launch in late 2011
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has delivered to Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) its first Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) developed to transport cargo to… Continue reading
AMS: ready to discover the particle universe
The largest and most complex scientific instrument yet to be fitted to the International Space Station was installed today. Taken into space by the Space Shuttle, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will sift ten thousand cosmic-ray hits every minute, looking for… Continue reading
Endeavour to deliver Astrium-built HD camera system to the ISS
- Astrium developed and delivered HD video camera assembly for the Columbus module in record time
- Live images from space in full HD will improve medical documentation and facilitate operation and maintenance of the space station
On what will probably be… Continue reading