by David Todd | Jun 27, 2013 | International Space Station, space station
While Huey, Duey and Louis were the three charming little robots on the American Airlines’ “Valley Forge” spaceship in the seminal eco-science fiction film, Silent Running (1972), now the International Space Station is set to...
by David Todd | Jun 26, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, space station
Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin made a six-hour 34-minute “Extra Vehicular Activity” spacewalk begining at 1332 GMT. The spacewalkers replaced a flow control panel on the Zarya module’s thermal control system...
by David Todd | Jun 17, 2013 | commercial launch services, International Space Station, Seradata News, space station
NASA’s Office of the Inspector General has criticised NASA’s management in a report noting that it has apparently given funding to one of the commercial cargo operators before it has flown the required number of cargo demonstration missions. Specifically...
by David Todd | Jun 17, 2013 | International Space Station, Seradata News, space station
Ten days after its Ariane 5 ES launch, the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV 04 (Albert Einstein) docked with the aft port of the International Space Station’s Zvezda module at 1407 GMT on 15 June. The craft was carrying The craff was carrying 2580kg of...
by David Todd | Jun 6, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, space station
An Ariane 5 ES rocket has successfully launch the ATV-4 cargo craft towards the International Space Station. The launch took place from the Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana at 2152 GMT on 5 June. The craft, dubbed Albert Einstein,...
by David Todd | May 29, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia
The Soyuz TMA-09M mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan) at 2013 GMT on 28 May 2013 on a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. Aboard the launch was a crew of three: Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, US...
