Although one month has passed since the return of the Soyuz TMA-11 capsule, carrying on board the crew of the International Space Station's Expedition 16, NASA is just starting to contest the capabilities of the Russian spacecrafts. As you probably already know, the Soyuz TMA-11 returned to Earth on April 19, af... |
19 May 2008
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Discovery space shuttle arrived on May 3 at the launch pad 39A at NASA's Kenned Space Center after being carried with the crawler-transporter from the Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building. The shuttle was secured to the launch pad and is now expecting the two rehearsals scheduled to take place between May 6 ... |
6 May 2008
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The Discovery space shuttle currently in preparation for the STS-124 mission to the International Space Station was carried on Saturday to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center were it will be attached to the external liquid fuel tank and the two solid rocket boosters. After that, the spac... |
30 April 2008
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Expedition 16 was the first ever to have a female as the commander of the International Space Station. The team comprises astronaut Peggy Whitson, space station commander, flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko and second flight engineers Clayton Anderson, Daniel Tani, Leopold Eyharts and Garret Reisman. In fact, the Exped... |
18 April 2008
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On 8 March, a Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian astronauts and one South Korean astronaut was sent into space from the Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. After two days of catching up with the ISS, the spacecraft is expected to dock at the International Space Station today at 9:00 a.m. EDT. The two Russian astrona... |
10 April 2008
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