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Kevin Ford is reflected and inverted in a blob of water, during his five-month Expedition 33/34 increment. Photo Credit: NASA Astronaut Kevin Ford—who piloted one of the twilight missions of shuttle Discovery’s glittering career, before commanding the International Space Station (ISS) for over 100 days—departed NASA on Friday, 29 January. The retired Air […] Since December 2000, a multi-national mix of Americans and Russians, Japanese and Italians, a Dutchman and a Canadian have celebrated Christmas aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA As we celebrate the festive period over the coming days, spare a thought for the four men and two women from three discrete nations […] Carrying Canada’s first ISS Commander, Chris Hadfield, together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Soyuz TMA-07M descends toward a touchdown in central Kazakhstan after 146 days in orbit. Photo Credit: NASA Expedition 35 crewmen Chris Hadfield of Canada, Roman Romanenko of Russia, and NASA’s Tom Marshburn landed safely […] Photo Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — Students in California will speak with Expedition 34 astronauts aboard the International Space Station Tuesday, March 5, from Monrovia High School near Los Angeles. News media representatives are invited to attend. The Earth-to-space call will take place from 1:25-1:45 p.m. EST (10:25-10:45 a.m. PST) and will be carried […] Rising from the smoke of its own making, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 roars into orbit yesterday to deliver the CRS-2 Dragon to the International Space Station. Although the rocket appears to have functioned normally, the Dragon experienced numerous glitches in its first few hours aloft. Photo Credit: John Studwell Following yesterday’s eventful launch, the […] SpaceX began the second mission under the $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract that the company has with NASA right on time at 10:10:13 a.m. EST. The launch site was Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studio The cold light of […] Photo Credit: NASA At approximately 9:45 a.m. EST Tuesday, February 19, 2013, the International Space Station lost communications with the ground. During this period, flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, were updating software aboard the space station’s flight computers. As this was happening, one of the station’s data relay […] Photo Credit: NASA One of Russia’s unmanned Progress resupply spacecraft left the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The departure was timed to make way for a new Progress, which is currently slated to arrive at the orbiting laboratory and workshop Monday. […] [youtube_video]http://youtu.be/MI8W0HS2I70[/youtube_video] Video courtesy of NASA Well wishes for the New Year came from all points across the globe, as well as above it. The Expedition 34 crew, some 260 miles above the surface of the Earth, beamed down New Year wishes to the inhabitants below. The Expedition’s Commander, Kevin Ford, and crewmates Chris […] Chris Hadfield has aimed high through his 53 years of life and today accomplished what few human beings—and even fewer Canadians—have ever achieved: to board a space station. In mid-March, he will take command of that station, proving that for him the sky is most definitely not the limit. Photo Credit: NASA/Ben Evans […] |
 Next Launch Starlink 1 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL Scheduled for: TBD NET 23 May 2019 Click here for more details... 
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