by JVanDomelen | May 19, 2016 | Featured, Manned, Space
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, May 19, 2016 — The only thing worse than a flying rock chipping your car window is a flying rock chipping your space station window. That’s what you’re seeing in the photo below, taken by British astronaut Tim Peake on the...
by JVanDomelen | May 19, 2016 | Featured, Launch Vehicle, Manned, Space
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, May, 19 2016 — A 154-foot-long external fuel tank built for NASA’s Space Shuttle Program is towed ashore in Marina del Rey, California. On May 21, the fuel tank, dubbed ET-94, will be towed 16.5 miles through Los Angeles to the...
by JVanDomelen | May 16, 2016 | Featured, Launch Vehicle, Space
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, May 11, 2016 — A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, with more than 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology...
by JVanDomelen | Mar 23, 2016 | Featured, Launch Vehicle, Space, Unmanned
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, March 23, 2016 — Scientific investigations of fire in microgravity and grippers inspired by geckos are among the nearly 7,500 pounds of cargo headed to the International Space Station aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft, along with...
by JVanDomelen | Mar 19, 2016 | Featured, Launch Vehicle, Manned, Space
BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN, March 19, 2016 — The Soyuz TMA-20M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station at 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday (3:26 a.m. on March 19 in Baikonur). Jeff Williams of NASA and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and...
