by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station
Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA carried out an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk commencing at 1230 GMT from the Quest airlock on 7 October 2014. The EVA finished 6 hours 13 minutes later at 1843 GMT. During the spacewalk the...
by David Todd | Sep 26, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
A crew carrying spacecraft, SOYUZ TMA-014M/ISS-40S, was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan at 2025 GMT on 25 September 2014. The three-person crew consisted of cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev...
by David Todd | Sep 22, 2014 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, NASA, Science, Seradata News, SpaceX
The fourth launch in its NASA resupply contract for the International Space Station was successfully carried out by Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) using its Dragon CRS-4 spacecraft launched by its Falcon 9V1.1 rocket. The launch took place at 0552 GMT...
by David Todd | Sep 11, 2014 | Apollo, International Space Station, Technology
As we noted the departure to the breakers yard of the former Royal Navy Frigate HMS Plymouth, this column forgot to mention that it was one of the last warships that still had portholes in its main hull. In fact, portholes (more properly known as scuttles) are...
by David Todd | Sep 11, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News
At 2302 GMT on 10 September 2014, Soyuz TMA-012M undocked from ISS Poisk module. The crew aboard was Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and departing ISS station commander Steven Swanson. According to Spaceflightnow.com, the de-orbit burn was made between 0130 and...
by David Todd | Sep 8, 2014 | International Space Station, JAXA, Seradata News
Having flown to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Cygnus Orb 2 (Janice Voss) unmanned freigther spacecraft which was launched in July, the plan to deploy all 28 PlanetLabs’ FLOCK 1B Earth observation cubesats from ISS has had to be curtailed. On 22...
