CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sometime in 2010, the worlds most important space-exploring nation might say goodbye to manned space flight for more than four years. U.S. policymakers are now worried. The flight gap would occur as NASA is winding down its space shuttle plan near the end of 2010 to … Continue reading
Since China ablaze a rocket into space last month and damaged its own aging weather satellite, there has been much chat about the leftovers now clouding the atmosphere. It is feared that bits of debris can unclear or damage U.S. military satellites used for observation, weapons guidance systems and communications.That’s … Continue reading
USA today’s view about NASA missed the simplicity and stylishness of NASA’s vision and the economic constraints it faces (“NASA, the expensive frontier,” Our view, Return to the moon debate). Readers need to know that NASA is tied to the costly space shuttle until 2010 when it could fulfill to … Continue reading
The Soyuz TMA-10 would be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The space capsule would also take two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. software engineer to the International Space Station (ISS). Veteran Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin would then command Expedition 15 on the ISS, as flight engineer Oleg Kotov … Continue reading
Expedition 14 crew members Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin, and Williams transferred space station systems to regular control (in case they could not return to the station) in preparation of the short flight on Thursday (March 29) to move a docked spacecraft. Then, flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin piloted the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft … Continue reading