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The crew of Shenzhou 10.
In June, the successful landing of China’s latest manned space mission cast a spotlight on the country’s growing human spaceflight skills as it hones the capabilities needed to build a huge, permanently crewed space station.
Continue reading… “Success of China’s spaceflight sets stage for huge space station”
NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017.
Program managers from NASA said they are looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Continue reading… “NASA issues call for new space taxis to fly to International Space Station”
Illustration depicts a Chinese Shenzhou vehicle approaching the Tiangong 1 space lab during orbital rendezvous and docking tests.
Over the next five years, China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country’s space program is gathering momentum.
Continue reading… “China reveals its space plans through 2016”
Space hotel
The Russian firm, Orbital Technologies, has revealed plans for a space hotel. The space hotel could be open to greet intergalactic tourists by 2016. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Russian company to launch world’s first space hotel by 2016”
A Russian Soyuz craft leaves the International Space Station.
Space officials in Russia are hailing the end of the space shuttle era as the beginning of the “Soyuz epoch.” Russian Soyuz craft will serve as the only way to get back and forth from the International Space Station, and NASA will be paying up to $63 million a seat for the ride for at least the next few years.
Continue reading… “Russians hail the end of the space shuttle era”
Model of a Chinese space station
China said that it plans to complete a manned space station around 2020, as the Asian nation pushes ahead with its ambitious space exploration program.
Continue reading… “China Plans to Have a Manned Space Station in Orbit Around 2020”
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
An unmanned, privately built rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday on a successful test flight before it begins cargo runs to the International Space Station for NASA. (Pics)
Continue reading… “First Flight a Success for the SpaceX Rocket”
Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there’s an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds, and it’s not dreams but—mothballs?
Continue reading… “Component Of Mothballs Is Present In Deep-space Clouds”
The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth’s atmosphere, says new Cornell University research. The conclusion is supported by an unlikely source: the exhaust plume from the NASA space shuttle launched a century later.
Continue reading… “Space Shuttle Science Shows How 1908 Tunguska Explosion Was Caused By A Comet”
…at 6:12 a.m. Pacific Time (9:12 a.m. Eastern Time) on May 14 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. Continue reading… “Herschel And Planck On Way To Study Our Cosmic Roots”
Astronauts on board of the International Space Station have been called into action to dodge yet another piece of space junk.
Continue reading… “Space Shuttle Discovery Pushes Space Station Out Of Path Of Space Debris”
“The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is slated for launch tomorrow, February 24, 2009. Continue reading… “Carbon Observatory (OCO)”