by David Todd | Mar 28, 2014 | Add category, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-012M /ISS-38S manned spacecraft docked with the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 1153 GMT on 28 March 2014, three days after its launch on 25 March. The spacecraft’s original “four orbit” approach plan had to be...
by David Todd | Mar 26, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Soyuz
The Soyuz TMA-012M manned spacecraft was successfully launched aboard a Soyuz FG launch vehicle towards the International Space Statikon from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, at 2117 GMT on 25 March 2013. The flight carrying Russian...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2014 | International Space Station, NASA, Russia
The tension between not wanting a policy of appeasement, and, at the same time, not wanting to impose counterproductive sanctions on Russia, has Western governments wondering just what to do about the Ukrainian/Crimean annexation crisis. As this column has previously...
by David Todd | Mar 11, 2014 | International Space Station, JAXA, Russia, Soyuz
While Russian and the Western nations wrestle with the Ukranian annexation crisis, for the time being it is business as usual for the International Space Station (ISS)and its respective astronaut crews. As planned, the Soyuz TMA-010M manned spacecraft undocked from...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2014 | ESA, History, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, space station
Russia’s military and political advances in the Crimean region of Ukraine, following similar fanning of separatism in parts of Georgia in 2008, has re-awakened Cold War fears. A cycle of sanctions against Russia and its retaliation to such action could seriously...
by David Todd | Mar 3, 2014 | History, International Space Station, NASA
While our generally positive review of the film Gravity (albeit with reservations about technical accuracy) tipped its star, Sandra Bullock, for an Oscar (Academy Award) for her performance in the space jeopardy movie, in the end, the deservedly-nominated Bullock lost...
