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The SpaceX Crew Dragon on ‘Demo-1’ docking to the station’s international docking adapter, which is attached to the forward end of the Harmony module. Credit: NASA TV Early this morning, after making 18 orbits of the Earth and 27 hours after launch, the first SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived and docked to the International […] 
The Saturn V which launched Skylab was visually quite distinct from its predecessors. Although it possessed the S-IC and S-II first and second stages, the place of the third stage (S-IVB) was taken by the inert space station. Photo Credit: NASA Forty-five years ago, this month, America almost lost its first space station. […] 
As well as becoming the first woman to serve in the Lead Spacewalker (EV1), Linda Godwin also participated in the first U.S. spacewalk outside a space station since the Skylab era. Her historic EVA with STS-76 crewmate Rich Clifford took place 20 years ago, today, on 27 March 1996. Photo Credit: NASA, via […] 
Expedition 47 crew member Tim Kopra captured this photograph of OA-6 Cygnus before the berthing early this morning. “#Cygnus when it was on its way to #ISS- the SS Rick Husband. @Orbital_ATK @Space_Station.” Credit: Tim Kopra/ @astro_tim on Twitter On Saturday, March 26, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus resupply ship, named after the late astronaut […] 
Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will be berthed to the Tranquility Node of the International Space Station for a two-year demonstration. It will be the first private space habitat of its kind. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace In early 2013, NASA awarded Bigelow Aerospace with a $17.8 million contract to develop an expandable space […] An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket launching on the company’s first contracted ISS resupply mission for NASA Jan. 16, 2014. Orbital’s next ISS resupply mission is now scheduled to fly NET July 11, 2014. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace Orbital Sciences Corp. today officially scheduled July 11 for the next launch […] Boosted aloft atop a Saturn IB rocket, and utilizing a special “milk stool” to raise its umbilical connections to the proper levels on the Pad 39B gantry, the third and final Skylab crew takes flight on 16 November 1973. Photo Credit: NASA Forty years ago, on 14 May 1973, the United States launched […] Aleksandr Serebrov (center), flanked by Vasili Tsibliyev (left) and Jean-Pierre Haigneré, during Soyuz TM-17 training. It was Serebrov’s fourth and final space mission. Photo Credit: Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov—a veteran of four space missions to two different space stations and the 26th most experienced spacefarer of all time—has died at age […] |
 Next Launch NG-11 on a Antares 230 rocket from Wallops Island, VA scheduled for: 17 Apr 19 at 20:46 GMT 17 Apr 19 at 4:46pm Eastern 
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