by David Todd | Jun 18, 2012 | China, Seradata News, space station
China has successfully launched its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft into orbit. The Long March 2F/G flight carrying the spacecraft took place from the Jiuquan launch site at 1037 GMT on 16 June. The spacecraft was carrying three Chinese atronauts {“Taikonauts”)...
by David Todd | May 18, 2012 | History, International Space Station, space station
After Internatioal Space Station Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers played Sir Elton John’s famous song Rocket Man to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of the song, so now the 65 year old singer has sent up a video of a live...
by David Todd | Apr 13, 2012 | exploration, History, Russia, space station
Beginning on the 12 April, – and carrying on over the next two months, the British Interplanetary Society in Vauxhall, London, is showing “First Orbit”, the hit Internet film which re-creates the story of the Major Yuri...
by Dan Thisdell | Feb 2, 2012 | Soyuz, space station
Europe formally put its Galileo satellite navigation project on track to provide a functional service during 2014 and near-global coverage in 2015 with the signing of contracts to build and launch eight more satellites. The €215 million package, signed today in London...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 5, 2010 | China, space station, Technology
Res Communis has reported on a presentation on prospects for space tourism in China by a Ms. Xu Si from the Beijing Institute of Technology – very probably an institution heavily involved in the space programmeI wrote for Flightglobal back in 2007 that...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 2, 2009 | China, exploration, space station
Go here to see the video of Chen Shanguang, the chief commander and chief designer of China’s Manned Space Engineering astronaut system speaking to China’s state run English language news and current affairs channel CCTV-9. Go here for more China manned...
