Crew-1 astronauts @Astro_Illini, @VicGlover, @Astro_Soichi & Shannon Walker are 2 months from launch to @Space_Station. Their ride to space arrived on the Space Coast last week. […]
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Kate Rubins, pictured inside the station’s Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) during her Expedition 48/49 increment in 2016. Photo Credit: NASA The candles will burn brightly for Kate Rubins’ next birthday. When the PhD cancer biologist-turned-astronaut hits 42 on 14 October, she will be serenaded by the blazing engines of a Soyuz-2.1a booster as […] 
“Chump” Kjell Lindgren gazes out of the multi-windowed cupola on the International Space Station (ISS), during his 4.5-month increment in July-December 2015. Lindgren is today backing up both the first and second piloted flights of the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Photo Credit: NASA Ten years ago, this week, nine American men and women from the […] Returning to the hard ground of Kazakhstan, Soyuz TMA-11M has brought three brave space voyagers back to Earth, only to be greeted by the disconcerting news that Russia may refuse to support the ISS beyond 2020. Photo Credit: NASA After almost 188 dramatic days in orbit, Expedition 39 has concluded in spectacular fashion […] At the snowy landing site, not far from the Kazakh city of Jezkazgan, Soyuz TMA-10M crewmen Oleg Kotov (center), Sergei Ryazansky (left), and Mike Hopkins (right) clasp hands in a sign of solidarity and recognition of a mission well done. Photo Credit: NASA After 166 days, six hours, and 27 minutes in flight, […] Outgoing Expedition 38 crewmen (bottom row, left to right) Mike Hopkins, Oleg Kotov, and Sergei Ryazansky are pictured with their new Expedition 39 comrades (top row, left to right) Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin, and Rick Mastracchio. The two crews have worked together as members of Expedition 38 since November 2013. Now, Wakata will […] With Cygnus appearing in the circular window of the cupola during its final rendezvous, Koichi Wakata poses for a photograph before using Canadarm2 to grapple the cargo ship on 12 January. Photo Credit: NASA For the crew of the International Space Station (ISS), the Sun rises and sets 16 times daily, as they […] Luca Parmitano (left) confers with Karen Nyberg, as Chris Cassidy looks on, shortly after concluding their 92-minute EVA-23. Photo Credit: NASA TV After six months of painstaking work, the NASA Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) has reported its findings, including root and proximate causes, of an incident in July 2013 when water unexpectedly intruded […] Orbital Sciences’ ORB-1 Cygnus mission enters its final stages, following release by the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 on Tuesday, 18 February. Photo Credit: NASA Orbital Sciences Corp. has entered the final stages of its ORB-1 mission—the first of eight dedicated Cygnus cargo delivery flights to the International Space Station (ISS)—following the successful unberthing […] Grappled by Canadarm2, the ORB-1 Cygnus craft is readied for berthing at the nadir port of the Harmony node in 12 January. Tomorrow, it will be unberthed to begin the final stage of its mission. Photo Credit: NASA After more than a month at the International Space Station (ISS), Orbital Sciences Corp. will […] |
 Next Launch NROL-44 on a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 27 Sep 20 at 4:10 GMT 27 Sep 20 at 12:10am Eastern 
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