By NASA, on September 10th, 2013 Photo Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov handed over control of the International Space Station Monday at 2:25 p.m. EDT in a traditional Change of Command Ceremony. Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin will take over command and officially lead Expedition 37 when Expedition 36 undocks today at 7:35 p.m.
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By Ben Evans, on September 10th, 2013 Luca Parmitano works on the routing of data and Ethernet cables during the short-lived 16 July EVA. Photo Credit: NASA
Since November 2000, thirty-six discrete groups of men and women from nine sovereign nations—the United States, Russia, Germany, France, Japan, Belgium, Canada, Italy, and the Netherlands—have lived and worked aboard the International Space […]
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By NASA, on September 7th, 2013 [youtube_video]http://youtu.be/nZYsOG60dKQ[/youtube_video]
Video courtesy of Science at NASA
High above our planet in the realm of satellites and space stations, the familiar rules of Earth do not apply. The midday sky is as black as night. There is no up and no down. Dropped objects do not fall, and hot air does […]
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By NASA, on September 4th, 2013 Aleksandr Misurkin, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano, Pavel Vinogradov, and Karen Nyberg make up Expedition 36, currently aboard the ISS. Photo Credit: NASA.
NASA Television will provide live coverage Tuesday, Sept. 10, as three of the crew members on the International Space Station return home, ending more than five months in space.
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By Ben Evans, on August 23rd, 2013 On 19 April 2013, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov became the oldest spacewalker. Aged 59 years and 8 months, he surpassed the previous record-holder, Story Musgrave, who was 58 years and 4 months when he serviced the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993. Photo Credit: NASA
Before he launched from Earth on 28 March, […]
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By Space Safety Magazine, on August 21st, 2013 Image Credit: NASA
On August 19, International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Chris Cassidy reported an unidentified object floating past the window. The last time an ISS crewmember spotted something unusual out the window, it was small frozen flakes from a serious ammonia leak that spawned rapid mobilization of an unscheduled extravehicular activity. This […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 23rd, 2013 Chris Cassidy works outside the International Space Station on 16 July. His 6.5-hour EVA with Luca Parmitano was cut short after just 92 minutes by the potentially serious water leakage incident. Photo Credit: NASA
A five-member investigation board—including veteran astronaut Mike Foreman—has been convened by NASA and will begin work on 2 August […]
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By Space Safety Magazine, on July 23rd, 2013 NASA is looking into fixes for the problems that cropped up during the July 16 spacewalk conducted by Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy. Photo Credit: ESA
NASA seems to be making progress in narrowing down potential sources of the leak that foreshortened a July 16th spacewalk when it filled ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano’s […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 16th, 2013 Luca Parmitano (left) confers with Karen Nyberg, as Chris Cassidy looks on, shortly after concluding their 92-minute EVA-23. Photo Credit: NASA TV
Expedition 36 spacewalkers Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano were dramatically summoned back to the International Space Station’s Quest airlock earlier today, a little more than 92 minutes into their planned 6.5-hour […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 9th, 2013 Riding the 57-foot-long Canadarm2, Luca Parmitano became Italy’s first spacewalker earlier today. He joins representatives of Russia, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, and Canada in having accomplished this remarkable feat. Photo Credit: NASA TV
Two astronauts, including Italy’s first spacewalker, ventured outside the International Space Station today on the first of two […]
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