Conversations over dinner with my in-laws usually revolve around the latest cricket game or the best new dish sampled, but last week space affairs made an unexpected appearance between courses. With wide-eyed disbelief, my husband’s father asked if we had heard about...
When H G Wells imagined a species of space creatures called Selenites living under the lunar surface in his sci-fi novel The First Men in The Moon, it was still unknown if such spaces even existed. While lunar sink holes and pits have long been accepted as part of the...
NASA has formally selected SpaceX to produce a vehicle to allow a controlled entry of the International Space Station (ISS) and safe landing in the sea. The decision comes in tandem with the agency’s supporting role in commercial efforts to create smaller commercial...
A spacewalk attempt on the International Space Station (ISS) was dramatically cut short after a spacesuit water leak occurred inside the airlock. The Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA-90) started on 24 June with the two astronauts, Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt, fully...
The first crewed test flight of Starliner finally lifted off from the ground following a series of stalled launch attempts. United Launch Alliance’s human-rated ATLAS V N22 (422) (RL10A-4-2) launch vehicle made its ascent from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 5 June at...
On the ISS, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin boarded Crew Dragon – NASA Crew 8 (Endeavour) on 2 May. They undocked from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module (IDA-2) on the...
