** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Cosimo]

The Enterprise ferry flight has left Dulles International Airport and is on its way to John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. Hopefully there will be a live stream from New York around 17:00.

 

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It's arrived so we'll have to wait for the videos.

 

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Enterprise over New York yesterday:

 

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Nice animated video of Orion from Full Werks studio:

http://vimeo.com/41118744

 

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Another gem:

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In preparation for SpaceX's launch of the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 7, SpaceX is test firing the engines of its Falcon 9 rocket at 20:00 (BST). The webcast will start here at 19:30 (BST):

http://www.spacex.com/updates.php

 

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Captain Alan Poindexter's interesting article, Photography In Space.

 

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With SpaceX’s Dragon launch set for May 19 at 09:55 BST (04:55 EDT) some mission info:

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Soyuz TMA-04M, Expedition 31 launch is at 04:01 BST tomorrow.

 

[Cosimo]

Expedition 31 (Soyuz TMA-04M) has successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome:

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[Cosimo]

Wow.

Another:

 

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Expedition 31 have arrived:

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Wow.

Even more wow:

 

[Cosimo]

The Atlantic magazine has an excellent set of images from the Russian space program. Enjoy:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/star-city-and-the-baikonur-cosmodrome/100297/

 

[Cosimo]

The weather remains 70% favourable for SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft launch on Saturday at 09:55 BST. I'm sad to say that I'll be missing this one.