NASA Television will provide live coverage as the next residents of the International Space Station launch and arrive at the station to expand its crew to six people. Coverage begins May 15 when the crew members leave Star City, Russia, en route to the launch site in Kazakhstan. On May 27, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Bob Thirsk will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in... Read Full Story
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US software pioneer Charles Simonyi undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and took course for Earth, space officials said. The capsule, also carrying US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, was expected to land northeast of Dzhezkazan in Kazakhstan at around 0700 GMT. Simonyi's return from the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule was pushed back from April 7 to 8 after the initial landing site was found to be... Read Full Story
A new Progress cargo carrier docked to the Pirs docking compartment of the International Space Station at 3:24 p.m. EDT Tuesday with more than 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies. The Progress linked up to Pirs as it and the ISS flew 220 miles over the Mongolian-Chinese border. The ISS Progress 33 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 2:37 p.m. It replaces the Progress 32 which undocked from the station May 6. Filled with trash and other discarded items... Read Full Story
Esther Dyson: Awaiting a flight in September...or someday.
Despite claims that the current space tourist, Charles Simonyi, would be the last one for years, there may be another paid space traveler as soon as September .
That’s the word from Space Adventures , the company which handles orbital flight to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Had been selling “empty” seats
Until now, Space Adventures has been booking unused seats aboard the Russian spacecraft... Read Full Story
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Astronauts to live on processed space rat piss Astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) celebrated a significant technology milestone yesterday, as the station's buggy quarter-billion-dollar urine recycler was finally declared fully operational. Jubilant, thirsty space explorers quaffed refreshing draughts of "yesterday's coffee... Read Full Story
Astronauts from the US space shuttle Discovery began their third and final spacewalk Monday, with a busy to-do list including unblocking a cargo carrier system on the space station, NASA said. Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, two former science teachers turned astronauts, emerged from the decompression chamber at 1537 GMT, some six minutes earlier than planned. One of their tasks during the six-and-a-half hour walk is to unblock the external cargo carrier after Acaba and fellow astronaut... Read Full Story
The Discovery astronauts were unable to dislodge a stuck cargo carrier system during their third and final space walk Monday, and carried on with their busy to-do list on the orbiting space station, NASA said. Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba, two former science teachers turned astronauts, emerged from the decompression chamber at 1537 GMT, some six minutes earlier than planned. One of their tasks during a six-and-a-half hour walk in space was to unblock the external cargo carrier after Acaba... Read Full Story
Embroidered Space Patch for the Expedition 13 Mission to the International Space Station Expedition 13 was the 13th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), and launched at 02:30 UTC on March 30, 2006.[1] The expedition used the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft, which stayed at the station for the duration of the expedition for emergency evacuation. Astronaut Marcos Pontes launched with Expedition 13 on the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and became the first Brazilian in space. He returned with... Read Full Story
NASA Expedition 17 International Space Station Embroidered Space Patch Expedition 17 was the 17th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The first two crew members, Sergey Volkov, and Oleg Kononenko were launched on April 8, 2008, aboard the Soyuz TMA-12. Once aboard the station, they joined Garrett Reisman, who transferred from Expedition 16 to join the Expedition 17 crew. Reisman was replaced by Gregory Chamitoff, who launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS... Read Full Story
Embroidered Space Patch for the Space Station NASA Expedition 8 Insignia Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Michael Foale, Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and ESA Astronaut Pedro Duque docked the Soyuz TMA-3 with the International Space Station at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT) on October 20. At the time of docking, both spacecraft orbited the Earth above Russia. Once the Expedition 7 crew undocked, Foale and Kaleri settled down to work, beginning a more than six-month stint... Read Full Story
