OTD in 2001, the Big Arm was launched to @Space_Station, enabling a critical tool which for 20 years has helped build, maintain & restock the orbital outpost. […]
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@NASA & @NorthropGrumman will launch a heavyweight #Cygnus cargo ship to @Space_Statio NET Saturday, 20 Feb. […] 
Astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai spent five hours and 57 minutes outside the International Space Station (ISS) on U.S. EVA-48. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter The spectacular sight of the Sun rising from behind the limb of the Home Planet was closely mirrored by the “circle of the Sun” on the sleeve of […] 
Scott Tingle became the 222nd human to perform an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on Tuesday, 23 January. His spacewalk with Mark Vande Hei lasted seven hours and 24 minutes and successfully replaced the Latching End Effector (LEE)-B on Canadarm2. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter A pair of fiftysomething fathers labored for seven hours and 24 minutes […] 
Randy Bresnik (with red stripes) and Mark Vande Hei totaled six hours and 26 minutes during Tuesday’s U.S. EVA-45. Photo Credit: NASA/Sergei Ryazansky/Twitter The U.S. Marine Corps is celebrating a new service record today, after Expedition 53 Commander Randy “Komrade” Bresnik—a retired colonel—became the service’s most seasoned spacewalker. Having already become the first […] 
Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik (with red stripes on the legs of his suit) and Mark Vande Hei labor outside the International Space Station (ISS) to remove and replace Latching End Effector (LEE)-A on Canadarm2. Photo Credit: NASA/CSA/Jason Seagram/Twitter Two astronauts representing the Marine Corps and Army branches of the U.S. Armed Forces […] 
A successful test fire of the Falcon 9 for next week’s CRS-12 launch, NET Aug 14. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace/Jeff Seibert UPDATED Aug 10: SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A today, scheduled to launch CRS-12 next week. Watch our video of today’s test fire below: […] 
The CRS-11 Falcon 9 first stage returns to Earth, making a successful landing back at Cape Canaveral AFS after launching Dragon to the ISS minutes earlier from KSC pad 39A. Photo Credit: NASA TV If candles celebrate an anniversary, then the roar of Merlin 1D+ rocket engines honored the 100th launch from Pad […] 
The multi-national STS-100 crew comprised, in orange suits, from left, Yuri Lonchakov, Kent Rominger, Umberto Guidoni, Jeff Ashby, and John Phillips, and in white EVA suits Scott Parazynski (left) and Chris Hadfield. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de When NASA and its worldwide partners began assembling the International Space Station (ISS) in low-Earth […] 
15 years ago, this month, Canadarm2 was installed at the International Space Station (ISS). Shuttle mission STS-100 marked the first occasion that as many as four discrete nations had been represented on a single flight and saw Chris Hadfield become Canada’s first spacewalker. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Within the last month, […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-26 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 9 May 21 at 6:42 GMT 9 May 21 at 2:42am Eastern 
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