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Will the Success of “Gravity” Impact the Future of the ISS?
Slight Spoiler Warning: Does the surprising success of the motion picture “Gravity” foretell an ominous future for the International Space Station? Leaving aside the numerous logical gaps in the...
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NASA Looks to Private Space Stations in the Future
Scientific Utilization is ClimbingCredit: NASA Some good news regarding ISS comes up in a Spacepolicyonline report of a briefing yesterday provided by Bill Gerstenmaier, Head of NASA’s Human...
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Expedition 38 Safely Back on Earth
Expedition 38Credit : NASA TV From NASA: Expedition 38 Lands In Kazakhstan Completing Mission Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Expedition 38 Flight Engineers Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy landed in...
View ArticleTwo Rockets, Two Visions Await Launch to ISS
Image Credit: NASA Today finds two launch vehicles and two capsules at their respective pads waiting for blast-off to the International Space Station. First up is the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft at the...
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Soyuz Crew Reverts to Slow Ascent After Thruster Problem
A Little LongerImage Credit : NASAHQ From NASA: The next trio of crew members destined for the International Space Station is now looking forward to a Thursday arrival at the orbiting laboratory...
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Better Late than Never, Soyuz Crew Arrives at Station
Soyuz Coming in for DockingCredit: NASA TV Note: Even as members of a House Science Committee were arguing about the who is responsible for America’s inability to launch its own astronauts, the crew of...
View ArticleFox News Surrendering America: Does Space Matter Again?
Fox News ran a special entitled “Surrendering America” several times over the last weekend in March. Three of the four segments covered control of the internet, defense spending and energy...
View ArticleRussian Angara Lifts Off In Test of Post Soviet Era Rocket Technology
Russia’s long awaited Angara booster lifted off today on a suborbital test flight which carried with it the hopes of a revival in the Russian launch industry after years decades of reliance on Soviet...
View ArticleBlack Friday: Arianespace Soyuz Places GPS Satellites in Wrong Orbit
It was something of a Black Friday for the launch industry yesterday. In addition to the SpaceX F9-R “explosion” in Texas, a bizarre story has emerged regarding an Arianespace launch which happened the...
View ArticleWill Russia Require NASA to Acknowledge Crimea Capture?
Long time Russian space observer James Oberg has penned a very interesting article at NBCnews.com which suggests that Russia is subtly attempting to get the U.S. government to acknowledge its...
View Article(Update) Drama in Space: Russian Progress Freighter Reported Spinning Out of...
Liftoff of Progress M-27-M / Image Credit Roscosmos A flurry of reports in Russia new media indicate that yesterday’s launch of the Progress M-27-M resupply freighter to the International Space Station...
View ArticleRussian Progress “Ceases to Exist” Over the Central Pacific
Roscosmos has reported that the stricken M-27M Progress resupply vessel reentered the Earth’s atmosphere overnight. The statement, which is on the agency’s website (in Russian), says that the craft...
View ArticleSoyuz Thruster “Glitch” Shifts the Space Station’s Position
In the latest of what has become a string of incidents, some serious and some minor, for the Russian space program, Roscosmos reported yesterday that a “glitch” with a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the...
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“3.5 Times Cheaper the US Dragon” Russia’s Space Plan Amid Budget Cuts
Liftoff of Angara A5Credit: Russian Defense Ministry It is far from the best of times for the Russian space program, as budget realities conflict with that nation’s lunar ambitions. Following...
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Soyuz Launch Brings ISS Complement Back to 6, Cygnus on Deck
NASA Press Release NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is now the first American to become a three-time, long-term resident of the International Space Station. He arrived at the orbiting laboratory at...
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Russia Will Conduct First Launch From New Spaceport in April
First Launch HonorsCredit: TASS The world’s oldest space power will soon be inaugurating its newest space port. After a long and troubled development which has frequently drawn the ire and intense...
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Progress 63 Lifts Off to ISS, SpaceX CRS-8 is Next
Progress 63 LiftoffCredit: Roscosmos The second of three tightly paced supply missions to the International Space Station has lifted off from Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz booster carrying the...
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Russia Prepares To Inaugurate a New Space Era at Vostochy
ReadyCredit: Roscosmos After a somewhat troubled development which featured launch vehicle changes, worker strikes and charges of corruption, Russia is finally ready to christen its new Vostochny...
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Russian Space Problems Continue
A Soyuz on Approach to ISSCredit: NASA/ESA/Tim Peake Russia’s space problems continue. Yesterday, TASS reported the following: “Launch of Soyuz MS manned spacecraft, which is due to take a new...
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Russia Still Wants to Send Tourists Around the Moon
Lunar SoyuzCredit: Space Adventures A long touted lunar circumnavigation for space tourists is back in the news with reports from Russia that RSC Energia now has 8 possible candidates for the mission,...
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