International Space Station

  With the latest new reports giving the gigantic robot “Dextre” more popularity than it has ever had in its entire “robotic” life, reports are saying that the reason Canada’s robot has not worked well since entering space territory recently. Apparently, engineers on the ground had put in the wrong circuitry, which created a roadblock in power and data to reach Dextre at the International Space Station. Last Friday, the cable design flaw required the flight controllers to design another plan... Read Full Story

(Top photo MIR & Bottom Photo ISS) Hello, I was drinking my wonderful cup of morning coffee & thinking today about the MIR Space Station, which lead me thinking about the International Space Station! The MIR (Russian: Мир, which can mean both Peace and World) was a Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station. MIR was humanity's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first 'third generation' type space station, constructed over a number of years with a... Read Full Story

  “The labors of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.’” …quote from Frankenstein. Dextre, a maintenance robot who appears as a grotesque tinman from Wizard of Oz yet will save many lives and hardships for the crew of the ISS, is the third and final component of Canada’s robotic arm on the International Space Station, a vital contribution not only to the station but also to support the CSA’s Special Purpose... Read Full Story

“Now I wouldn’t go as far to say that we’re worried it’s going to go run amok and take over the space station or turn evil or anything because we all know how it’s operated and it doesn’t have a lot of its own intelligence,” Garrett Reisman, one of the seven astronauts of mission STS-123, told AP news. He also admitted to being slightly nervous about the size of the gigantic robot. “But I’ll tell you something. He’s enormous and to see him with his giant arms, it is a little scary. It’s a... Read Full Story

“Columbus will be the first time we have not only coordination responsibility for the science experiments but also permanent system-wide responsibility in particular for the life-support services like air and temperature. Once Columbus is in orbit, the Columbus Control Center will be manned twenty-four hours per day,” says Dieter Sabath, head of mission operations at the centre. Hans Schlegel felt good enough Wednesday to go out on the spacewalk with astronaut Rex Walheim, after missing... Read Full Story