By Ben Evans, on June 3rd, 2017
Atlantis launches on her longest space mission on 8 June 2007. Photo Credit: NASA
Ten years have now passed since STS-117 literally changed the face of the International Space Station (ISS), delivering and activating a new set of power-producing solar arrays, batteries and radiators. Aboard shuttle Atlantis in June 2007 for what would […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 19th, 2015
Boeing’s CST-100 “Starliner” spacecraft is depicted here climbing to orbit. The company will begin flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA as soon as 2017. Image Credit: Boeing
For the second time this year, Boeing has received a Post-Certification Mission (PCM) order from NASA to perform a dedicated […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 29th, 2015 One of two pressurized domes for the “shell” of the Structural Test Article (STA) of Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft undergoes checkout. Photo Credit: NASA
Less than a year since winning a $4.2 billion slice of the $6.8 billion Commercial Crew transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract—the current phase of NASA’s effort to return U.S. astronauts to […]
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By Ben Evans, on March 29th, 2015 Bill Oefelein was one of the first members of his astronaut class to venture into space and the first Alaskan to reach orbit. He turns 50 today. Photo Credit: NASA
Although he forged an unfortunate place in popular culture and gained intense media attention in early 2007 as part of a bizarre “love […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 27th, 2014 Bill Shepherd (center) and his Expedition 1 crewmates, Yuri Gidzenko (left) and Sergei Krikalev, juggle oranges during their time aboard the International Space Station. They celebrated both Christmas and the dawn of 2001 in orbit. Photo Credit: NASA
With a naval officer in command of the International Space Station, it might have seemed […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 24th, 2014 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 […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 11th, 2013 Chris Cassidy (with red stripes) and Tom Marshburn work outside the International Space Station to track down and rectify an anomalous ammonia leak. Photo Credit: NASA
In what may go down in the record books as one of the shortest intervals between authorizing a spacewalk and executing it to perfection, Expedition 35 astronauts […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 19th, 2012 Surrounded by all-terrain rescue vehicles and recovery personnel, the Soyuz TMA-05M descent module lies on its side on the desolate Kazakh steppe after bringing Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide home from four months in space. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Expedition 33 has concluded in triumphant style with the safe return to […]
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By Ben Evans, on November 1st, 2012 Pictured during an earlier excursion, Sunita Williams became the world’s most experienced female spacewalker at the end of US EVA-20. She now ranks fifth in the world, with more than 50 hours in seven EVAs and is surpassed only by Anatoli Solovyov, Mike Lopez-Alegria, Jerry Ross and John Grunsfeld. Photo Credit: NASA
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By Mike Killian, on March 21st, 2012
NASA astronaut Suni Williams will announce the two winners of the worldwide Youtube Space Lab science competition this Thursday in Washington D.C. Williams will perform the student-designed experiments onboard the International Space Station later this year. Photo Credit: NASA
On Thursday NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who has flown on the space shuttle and […]
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