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Scientists from the University of Utah have recently announced the creation of a new method of assessing the quality of the water that astronauts drink in orbit. While, at first glance, the process may seem similar to what goes on down on Earth, this is not the case. For example, aboard the International Space Statio... |
14 September 2009
02:56 GMT |
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It would seem that NASA's latest missions to the ISS and the Hubble Space Telescope were plagued by bad luck, as far as sticking to their landing/take-off schedules was concerned. The STS-128 flight to the International Space Station, carried out with space shuttle Discovery, was no different. After delays in it... |
14 September 2009
02:32 GMT |
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In spite of concerns related to the fact that both the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV-1) and the H-2B rocket were new and little tested, yesterday's launch of Japan's unmanned cargo spacecraft, destined for the International Space Station (ISS), went on without a hitch. The new craft was launched from the Tanega... |
11 September 2009
01:34 GMT |
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Despite having not one, but two landing windows yesterday, the space shuttle Discovery was unable to take advantage of any of them, as stormy clouds and thunderstorms loomed over the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. According to NASA officials, the seven-member crew aboard the spacecraft have another... |
11 September 2009
01:16 GMT |
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The Japanese space agency JAXA is currently entering the latest stages of preparations for its first H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) launch, scheduled for later today, at 1701 GMT. The new mission will also mark another premiere, as the craft will rise to low-Earth orbit aboard a new H-2B rocket, a more powerful design th... |
10 September 2009
04:06 GMT |
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The STS-128 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to conclude today, with the planned landing of space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida. There are two landing windows for the spacecraft, one at 7:05 pm EDT (2305 GMT), and another at 8:42 pm EDT (0... |
10 September 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the space shuttle Discovery have just finished their first spacewalk of the STS-128 assembly mission. A massive tank, moored to the orbital outpost, was removed from the station, while other crew members inside unpacked and installed the new Combined Operati... |
2 September 2009
04:07 GMT |
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According to the presidential panel committee that has just recently finished looking into the activities under development at NASA, extending the lifespan of the International Space Station (ISS) beyond 2015 is key to reaching Mars. The experts, who said that they themselves were surprised by the find, highlight the... |
1 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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After two days of following the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit, space shuttle Discovery finally caught up with the outpost and docked on it at 8:54 pm EDT (0054 GMT, August 31), on Saturday. The hatch connecting the two spacecraft was opened just 90 minutes later, and the number of astronauts on the space... |
31 August 2009
04:59 GMT |
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At 11:59 pm EDT (0359 August 29th GMT), the space shuttle Discovery took off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, California, on its 13-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The midnight launch went without a hitch, despite earlier concerns over a hydrogen fuel val... |
29 August 2009
04:35 GMT |
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With the planned withdrawal of NASA's aging shuttle fleet, by the end of 2010, nations involved in the European Space Agency (ESA) are looking for new solutions to ensure that they maintain a permanent presence in low-Earth orbit and on the International Space Station (ISS). Officials from the agency have alread... |
28 August 2009
14:21 GMT |
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NASA officials and mission controllers decided yesterday to postpone the launch of space shuttle Discovery to this evening, at 11:59 pm EDT (0359 GMT, August 29th). They chose not to attempt liftoff early in the morning, as first planned, amidst fears that the fuel valve that prevented a Tuesday launch would not func... |
28 August 2009
02:57 GMT |
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After two consecutive days in which mishaps prevented the space shuttle Discovery from launching, mission controllers have again initiated the countdown sequence for the STS-128 assembly flight to the International Space Station. The spacecraft is now scheduled to take off at 12:22 am EDT (0422 GMT), on Friday mornin... |
27 August 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Master's degree students from the Imperial College London (ICL) and the Royal College of Art, in the United Kingdom, have recently showcased their space-hotel concept, which takes living in space to a new level. The modular design could readily be attached to the International Space Station (ISS), its designers ... |
27 August 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Electrical shocks that each of us experience when touching doorknobs or car doors after a long trip are caused by vast numbers of electrons, which you have collected before touching the surface. The shock is not strong in itself, but it can be very frightening. However, when it appears during spacewalks, as astronaut... |
27 August 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Among the scientific experiments that will be taken to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the space shuttle Discovery, there is one that was designed by experts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The experimental heat-transfer system will be installed aboard the station for a total of three year... |
26 August 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Despite the forecast showing 80 percent chances of good weather for Tuesday morning, Mother Nature played a bad joke on NASA mission controllers and the seven-astronaut crew preparing to board space shuttle Discovery for the STS-128 assembly flight to the International Space Station (ISS). In the wee hours of the m... |
25 August 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Late on Sunday, officials at the US space agency NASA cleared the space shuttle Discovery for launch on the STS-128 assembly mission to the International Space Station. The flight is scheduled to begin at 1:36 am EDT (0536 GMT), from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The sh... |
24 August 2009
05:56 GMT |
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NASA officials have recently decided to clear space shuttle Discovery's fuel tank concerns, and have said that the foam insulation system is safe, and poses no damage hazard to the spacecraft's heat shields. Today, top officials within the space agency are due to meet and discuss the faith of the mission, w... |
19 August 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Engineers at the American space agency NASA have recently announced that they may have to roll the space shuttle Discovery and its rockets back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. They say that the external fuel tank has a foam-shedding problem, which could jeopardize the p... |
12 August 2009
03:21 GMT |
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A couple of weeks before space shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center, at the Cape Canaveral complex in Florida, they are taken out on a five-kilometer cruise atop the massive, Apollo-era Crawler-Transporter (CT), the second largest tracked vehicle in the world. This giant beast of burden takes the shutt... |
5 August 2009
01:48 GMT |
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The space shuttle Endeavor successfully touched down at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 0948 EDT (1448 GMT) today, in a picture-perfect procedure that could be watched online at NASA TV. Having successfully completed its 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the shuttle crew is now scheduled to e... |
31 July 2009
11:05 GMT |
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On the eve of their planned landing today, scheduled to take place at 10:48 am EDT (1448 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, space shuttle Endeavor astronauts deployed yesterday a number of small satellites into orbit. The two sets of observatories were jettisoned from the craft's... |
31 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavor performed today the final heat-shield verification using the standard NASA sensor-laden inspection pole before Friday's attempt to land at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The stakes are very high, so the crew took their time wieldin... |
29 July 2009
10:42 GMT |
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After more than 11 days of flying in low-Earth orbit attached to a port on the International Space Station, the space shuttle Endeavor finally concluded its assembly stage of the mission, and undocked from the international outpost yesterday, at 1:26 pm EDT (1726 GMT). During its stay, astronauts performed five space... |
29 July 2009
01:29 GMT |
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A picture of the International Space Station (ISS) and the docked space shuttle Endeavor passing in front of the Sun was recently made available by photographer Thierry Legault, Wired reports. Known for his amazing skills at surprising moments such as this one, the artist uses special solar filters that allow him to ... |
28 July 2009
03:39 GMT |
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Experts at NASA announced yesterday that they had managed to bring the American-built Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) air scrubber back online on Sunday, after it broke down on Saturday. While engineers back on Earth are still looking for the original source of the glitch, the 13 astronauts aboard the Internat... |
27 July 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Russian mission controllers announced the successful launch of the unmanned Progress 34 (M-67) spacecraft, which carries supplies for the International Space Station. The successful take-off took place at the RosCosmos-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 6:56 am EDT (1056 GMT) on July 24th. The automated ... |
25 July 2009
05:02 GMT |
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had reasons to celebrate yesterday. Everything that went on on the International Space Station was centered around the newly completed Kibo module. With a price tag of more than $1 billion, the most complex laboratory on the ISS used its robotic arm on Thursday to move... |
24 July 2009
01:28 GMT |
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Yesterday, Endeavor Astronauts Dave Wolf and Chris Cassidy performed an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) on the International Space Station (ISS), aimed at replacing a few of the laboratory's oldest batteries. NASA planned that four of six packages be removed during the six-hour spacewalk, but that objective was n... |
23 July 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Very few people have actually given sneezing in space a thought, but astronauts learn the hard way that doing it right can be crucial to the success of their mission. That is to say, while the outside of a spacesuit helmet can be wiped with relative ease during an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), the interior not tha... |
22 July 2009
02:39 GMT |
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Four decades after the day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and space shuttle Endeavor marked the moment by performing the second spacewalk of STS-127. Mission specialists Dave Wolf and To... |
21 July 2009
01:37 GMT |
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NASA has announced that one of the toilets aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been taken out of commission, having shown signs of malfunction. Brian Smith, the flight director for the orbital station, says in a statement that engineers are, at this point, unsure of the extent of the damage. It was not i... |
20 July 2009
03:58 GMT |
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On Sunday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) prepared for the second extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-127 mission, to take place today, when they used the station's robotic arm to unload a spare-part container from Endeavor's cargo bay. The supplies, which are destined for cri... |
20 July 2009
01:46 GMT |
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Back in 2004, a Soyuz rocket carried aboard the International Space Station a batch of roundworms (C. elegans), as part of a scientific study aimed at evaluating the exact effects that microgravity had on the creatures' physiology and development cycles. In a new study covering the experiments, researchers revea... |
10 July 2009
06:45 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew that is to fly on the space shuttle Endeavor assembled at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, yesterday, to begin preparations for the planned launch of the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). After a month of delays, brought forth by two successive lau... |
8 July 2009
01:44 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) are currently working on implementing a new communication system on the International Space Station that would essentially represent a new technology, which would extend the limits of the Internet in... |
7 July 2009
20:31 GMT |
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The Imperial College London (ICL) and the Royal College of Art (RCA) jointly own the Masters degree in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) that numerous students attend. This year, as part of a project they had to complete for their degree, the youngsters envisioned a space hotel, which could be built in space, and a... |
6 July 2009
06:10 GMT |
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With the recent situation the space shuttle Atlantis, freshly returned from servicing the Hubble Space Telescope for the fifth and final time, finds itself in, many have begun to talk about postponing future space missions, or even early retirement. NASA officials, however, tend to be a bit more optimistic, and say t... |
30 June 2009
07:04 GMT |
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With the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) already scrubbed twice, NASA engineers are currently under a lot of pressure to find the faulty hydrogen gas leak, so as to allow the space shuttle to take off on its newly scheduled date, July 11th. Scientists investigating the spacecraft now believe ... |
23 June 2009
09:49 GMT |
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The Orbital Sciences Corporation has recently signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air Show, which states that, by the end of 2011, a new resupply spaceship would have to be constructed, which would bring food, drinks, scientific equipment and other cargo to the International Space Station. The dea... |
19 June 2009
05:46 GMT |
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NASA announced yesterday afternoon the schedule it had decided for the launches of the space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station, as well as for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). According to the latest information coming in from the Amer... |
16 June 2009
03:39 GMT |
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When the space shuttle Endeavor links up with the International Space Station, most likely on Monday, the joint crew of the two craft will number 13 astronauts, the largest figure ever recorded on the orbital facility. The number will only be equaled by that recorded a few months ago, when 13 astronauts were flying i... |
12 June 2009
14:21 GMT |
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According to news coming in from the American space agency, the space shuttle Endeavor has been authorized to take off on Saturday, June 13th, from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight will deliver two new modules to the International Space Station, and the crew, in a ser... |
12 June 2009
04:32 GMT |
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In a very rare type of spacewalk, which took place entirely inside the International Space Station, RosCosmos Cosmonaut Gennedy Padalka and NASA Astronaut Michael Barratt successfully replaced an old door on the station with a conic docking module. In their second spacewalk this week, the two managed to complete thei... |
10 June 2009
07:01 GMT |
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If all goes according to plan, Saturday will see the launch of space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station, on the STS-127 construction mission. Seven astronauts will spend more than 16 days in space, performing five spacewalks, and upgrading the ISS with improved robotic arms, as well as with two new a... |
9 June 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Acting ISS Commander Gennedy Padalka and NASA flight engineer Michael Barratt have finished their scheduled spacewalk for the day, as they successfully installed two new antennas, thus priming the International Space Station for the arrival of a new shuttle mission, later this fall. The extra-vehicular activity (EVA)... |
5 June 2009
10:01 GMT |
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With space shuttle Endeavor's flight to the International Space Station scheduled for June 13, the crew aboard the orbital lab is currently engaged in making the final preparation to receive the flight, and also the two segments of the Japanese Kibo module, the Exposed Facility (JEM EF), and the Exposed Section ... |
5 June 2009
04:41 GMT |
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In these financially troubled times, creating an enterprise that works is a real challenge, but Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, a start-up in the rocket industry, seems to be doing just fine in that regard. Founded in 2002, the company already has plans to launch the newest in a series of rockets this yea... |
4 June 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Usually, one of the main requirements that a space agency has of its astronauts is for them to be in perfect health, and not suffer from conditions that could jeopardize their lives in the coldness of space, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In a study conducted on one female and 16 male astronauts, resea... |
2 June 2009
10:57 GMT |
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