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in NASA, Launch, Skylab, space stationsAttitude Control Game: Remembering Skylab’s Fateful Launch, 45 Years Ago
Forty-five years ago, this month, America almost lost its first space station. On the morning of 14 May 1973, the last in a generation of Saturn V boosters sat on historic Pad 39A, ready for its journey into space. Visually, it was quite distinct from its predecessors, possessing two stages, instead of three, and in […] More
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Expedition 55 Spacewalkers Tend to Station Cooling System on 50th Quest-Based EVA
Expedition 55 spacewalkers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold have completed a six-hour and 31-minute session of Extravehicular Activity (EVA), outside the International Space Station (ISS), during which they removed a 235-pound (107 kg) Pump Flow Control Subassembly (PFCS) from a spare parts platform to the Dextre “hand” of the 57.7-foot-long (17.6-meter) Canadarm2 robotic arm. It will […] More
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U.S.-Russian Duo Set to Launch Thursday for Multi-Month Space Station Increment
The smallest Soyuz crew in more than a decade will rocket towards the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, 20 April, heading for a shorter-than-normal increment of 4.5 months aboard the orbital outpost. Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin—who becomes only the eighth Russian citizen to chalk up a fifth space mission—and “rookie” NASA astronaut Jack Fischer […] More
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in NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, ISS, Space, SpaceX, COTS, Soyuz, International Space Station, Space Exploration, Ben Evans, astronaut, Soyuz Descent Module, Soyuz TMA-M, Missions, space stations, Spacesuit, CYGNUS, ORB-4, Spacewalk EVA, Orbital ATK, TMA-16M, CRS-7, TMA-17M, TMA-19MOne-Year Crew Prepares to Depart Space Station for Return to Earth
Scott Kelly has certainly been waxing lyrical recently, as he wraps up the last couple of percent of his (almost) year-long increment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Last week, as he passed Day 330, he stopped counting “up” and began counting “down”, as he entered the final ten days of his historic mission. This […] More
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in AmericaSpace, ISS, Space, International Space Station, Space Exploration, Ben Evans, astronaut, Soyuz TMA-M, Exploration, Missions, space stations, Spacesuit, Spacewalk EVA, TMA-19MUS and UK Spacewalkers Repair, Replace, Remove, and Install Hardware Outside Space Station
Expedition 46 astronauts Tim Kopra of NASA and Britain’s Tim Peake have completed a somewhat truncated four-hour and 43-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), successfully replacing a failed Sequential Shunt Unit (SSU) and tending to a number of “get-ahead” tasks, including power and data cable installation, ahead of the expected debut of Commercial […] More
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in AmericaSpace, ISS, Space, COTS, International Space Station, Ben Evans, astronaut, Soyuz TMA-M, Missions, space stations, CYGNUS, ORB-4, Spacewalk EVA, CRS-8, TMA-19MKopra and Peake Primed for Friday Spacewalk
He may be long-retired from the British Army, and his Christian name may have a different vowel at its core, but “Major Tim” Peake will pay unique tribute on Friday, 15 January, to “Starman” David Bowie, who died last weekend from cancer. Peake and his Expedition 46 crewmate, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, were recently announced […] More
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NASA Announces Journey to Mars Contest for Ideas to Enable Human Presence on Red Planet
Here’s your chance to influence how NASA will fulfill its agency-wide goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s for a sustained period of time. NASA has just announced a cash prize contest seeking input from the public for ideas on how to develop the infrastructure needed to establish a continuing human presence on […] More
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Heavyweight Payload for Science to Accompany SpaceX’s Next ISS-Bound Dragon
SpaceX is gearing up for the next round of its most ambitious year of launches and tests to date, with next week’s scheduled flight of the sixth dedicated Dragon cargo mission (CRS-6) toward the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the unpiloted cargo craft—which is being flown under the language of the $1.6 billion Commercial […] More
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New Crew Settles In While Ongoing Research Continues for Expedition 43 on ISS
SPACE STATION WEEKLY UPDATE March 30 – April 5, 2015 — As the three new crew members of Expedition 43 settled in last week, ongoing science and research studies continued onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Preparations for an upcoming cargo delivery—along with robotics, fuel, and stem cell and biological studies—all took place at the orbiting laboratory. More
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Opportunity Arrives at Alien Gateway to Clay Minerals at Spirit of St. Louis Crater
Scientists leading the renowned expedition of NASA’s more-than-decade-old rover Opportunity are thrilled that the vehicle has arrived at “Spirit of St. Louis Crater”—the gateway to “alien scenes” of Marathon Valley and water-altered minerals that formed under environmental conditions conducive to support Martian microbial life forms, if they ever existed. “We go to the crater first […] More
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Stretching the Shuttle: 25 Years Since the EDO Decision
Twenty-five years ago, this week, NASA and Rockwell International reached a historic agreement which would, both figuratively and literally, “extend” the shuttle and its myriad capabilities beyond anything previously achievable. On 2 April 1990, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, requiring Rockwell—the shuttle’s prime contractor—to “produce commercially a cryogenic pallet” for the long-planned Extended […] More
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Veteran Shuttle Pilot and Adventurer Bill Oefelein Turns 50 Today
Although he forged an unfortunate place in popular culture and gained intense media attention in early 2007 as part of a bizarre “love triangle,” former shuttle astronaut Bill Oefelein—who turns 50 today (Sunday, 29 March)—also became the first Alaskan ever to embark on a space voyage and the first person to write a blog whilst […] More
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