Christa McAuliffe's Lessons Remembered, As Space Station 'Year of Education' Enters Second Half

By Ben Evans, on January 28th, 2018

Members of the 51L crew during training. From left are Ellison Onizuka, Ron McNair, Greg Jarvis, Judy Resnik, Christa McAuliffe (seated on table) and backup crew member Barbara Morgan. Photo Credit: NASA

Just a few days shy of the 32nd anniversary of the loss of Challenger, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Ricky Arnold […]

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Spacewalkers Vande Hei and Tingle Service Space Station Robotic Arm

By Ben Evans, on January 23rd, 2018

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 […]

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Soyuz MS-07 Crew Launches, Bound for Six-Month Space Station Increment

By Ben Evans, on December 17th, 2017

Soyuz MS-07 during first-stage boost. Photo Credit: Roscosmos/Twitter

Three spacefarers from three nations have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a two-day chasedown of the International Space Station (ISS) and four months of residency aboard the orbital outpost. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov—embarking on his third long-duration voyage to the station—is […]

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Three Spacefarers from Three Nations Prepare for Four-Month Mission to Space Station

By Ben Evans, on October 12th, 2017

Soyuz MS-07 crew consists of Commander Anton Shkaplerov (center), with Scott Tingle (right) as Flight Engineer-1 and Norishige Kanai (left) as Flight Engineer-2. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter

Three spacefarers from the United States, Russia and Japan gathered at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, yesterday (Wednesday, 11 October), to discuss their upcoming […]

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Expedition 53 Ready to Expand to Six-Man Strength With Soyuz MS-06 Launch

By Ben Evans, on September 12th, 2017

Soyuz MS-06 launches from Site 1/5 at Baikonur, three weeks shy of the 60th anniversary since Sputnik 1 rose from the same complex. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter

Three new crew members are en-route to the International Space Station (ISS), following an on-time launch of Soyuz MS-06 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff of […]

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Soyuz MS-06 Crew Discusses Changes to Forthcoming Space Station Expedition

By Ben Evans, on May 11th, 2017

Soyuz MS-06 crew members (from left) Aleksandr Misurkin, Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei will spend five months in space from September 2017 through February 2018. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace

A trio of space explorers, who six months ago could not have imagined they would ever be flying together, gathered yesterday (Wednesday, 10 […]

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