Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:29 a.m. EDT Friday. STS-135 is the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program that will end the multi-purpose spaceplane programme’s three-decade era of human spaceflight.
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On 8 July 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted …
The six men in the Mars500 facility near Moscow have been in isolation now 365 days. The European crewmembers have been writing in their latest letters home about the highlights, monotonous life, team spirit and determination to go on.
“Wow, it’s already been a year,†begins Diego Urbina, one of the two Mars500 crewmembers from ESA, in his latest diary … Read the rest of this article
Space shuttle Endeavour and its six-astronaut crew sailed home for the final time, ending a 16-day journey of more than 6.5 million miles with a landing at 2:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Space shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, completing a 16-day mission to the …
NASA has broadcast-quality audio and video clips from the ongoing STS-134 space shuttle and other missions available online through the Internet Archive website.
The agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston is digitizing, cataloging and archiving audio files for news media use. These files include an entire calendar day’s conversation between the Mission Control Center and the crews aboard the shuttle … Read the rest of this article
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off today on her last mission to the International Space Station. Following launch of the STS-134 mission at 12:56 GMT (14:56 CEST), Endeavour is heading towards a docking with the Station at 10:15 GMT (12:15 CEST) on Wednesday, 18 May.
ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and his five crewmates will spend 16 … Read the rest of this article
This week marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as the World’s very first space man.
To mark this historic flight, Yuri’s Night and YuriGagarin50 teamed up with the astronauts onboard the International Space Station to film a new … Read the rest of this article
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NASA has established a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing America’s next human spacecraft a step closer to construction.
The Orion Project completed its system requirements review in cooperation with its prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, March 1. The review marked the first major milestone in the Orion engineering process and provided the foundation for … Read the rest of this article
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