by David Todd | Aug 12, 2013 | International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, Space Shuttle, space station
Accomplished NASA astronaut Michael Foale who holds dual UK/US citizenship has retired from NASA. During his astronaut career he had six trips into orbit via six space shuttle missions and served 145 days aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1997. That mission...
by David Todd | Aug 9, 2013 | History, On a Lighter Note, space station
After a media backlash, the Government of the United Kingdom decided to put an eventual end to aid being sent to India after it was pointed out that not only was that nation on the way to becoming richer than the UK itself, but also that it had a better space...
by David Todd | Aug 5, 2013 | International Space Station, JAXA, Satellites, space station
The Japanese cargo craft HTV-4 (Kounotori-4) was sent on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard an H-2B launch rocket launched from the Tanegashima launch site in Japan at 1948 GMT on 3 July. Apart from stores and spare parts,...
by David Todd | Jul 29, 2013 | International Space Station, Russia, Satellites, space station
The unmanned space freighter Progress M-20M was launched from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan at 2045 GMT on 27 July. After a short passage lasting less than six hours, the spacecraft docked with the Internaional Space Station at the Pirs module...
by David Todd | Jul 19, 2013 | NASA, space station
A space walking astronaut had a lucky escape on 16 July when his space suit began to fill with globules of water. Astronaut Luca Parmitano (ESA) along with Chris Cassidy (NASA) were performing a spacewalk which began at 1157 GMT on 16 July for cabling tasks on the...
by David Todd | Jul 10, 2013 | International Space Station, space station
Astronaut Chris Cassidy (NASA) and Luca Parmitano (ESA, pictured) performed an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) which began at 1909 GMT on 10 July. During the spacewalk ,which lasted six hours seven minutes, the two astronauts made various equipment retrievals and...
