Soyuz Delivers Three to Space Station
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Americans and a Russian docked with the International Space Station Tuesday evening, bringing to six the number of men and women from the two countries living aboard the orbiting laboratory. The linkup delivering Doug Wheelock, Shannon...Japan’s Solar Sail Photographed in Orbit
Source: Discovery News If seeing is believing, this picture comes as sweet relief to a satellite operations team in Japan that has been overseeing the flight of an experimental solar sailing spacecraft. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA,...Guest Blog: Destinations in Rhetoric
Source: Space News Since releasing its fiscal year 2011 budget, the Obama Administration has muddied the water over the ultimate purpose for its proposed changes to NASA’s exploration program. The destination changes depending on the audience and the context in which...Book Review: Live TV From the Moon
Live TV From the Moon by Dwight Steven-Boniecki; Apogee Books; Burlington Ontario Canada; (softcover) $29.95; 2010. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moonwalked into history back in 1969, a huge contingent of onlookers on Earth watched in amazement. That was made...Three-person international crew launched into space
Source: Spaceflight Now Lighting up the pre-dawn Kazakhstan sky, a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a veteran cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts roared to life and vaulted into orbit Tuesday, kicking off a two-day flight to the International Space Station. Station veteran...Space Exploration Technologies lands satellite deal
Source: Los Angeles Times The $492-million contract with Iridium Communications, expected to be announced Wednesday, could involve as many as nine launches by the Hawthorne rocket company beginning in 2015. SpaceX, which assembles the rocket in Hawthorne, also has a...Orbiting telescope spots possible planets
Source: Los Angeles Times NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified more than 700 so-called extrasolar planets, which obit around stars other than the sun. In only its first 43 days of operation, NASA’s Kepler orbiting telescope has identified 706 potential...Our views: End the stalemate (June 15)
Source: Florida Today Obama, Congress should craft NASA compromise It’s a game of political chicken that’s making the uncertainty about NASA’s future worse. And it has to stop. We’re talking about new moves in the White House and Congress to shape the agency’s ...Two Americans, Russian Lift Off for Space Station
Two Americans and a Russian blasted off from Central Asia aboard a Soyuz rocket on Tuesday, initiating a six-month mission to the International Space Station, where they will finish the outfitting of the newest module and tackle dozens of science experiments. The...Space Talk
Discover the incredible story of Voyager 1! Launched in 1977 with less computing power than a car key.
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Swift has been in #space 22 years, studying the universe’s most powerful explosions. Now, it’s falling to Earth. NASA launched LINK to save it, but a failure sent LINK into an uncontrolled spin. Is that the end for #LINK and #Swift? Not quite!
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Wishing ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot a safe and successful first spacewalk today! 👩🚀🌍
Alongside NASA astronaut Anil Menon, she’ll help replace an ISS antenna used for high-speed communications with Earth.
Good luck, Sophie and Anil!
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