Mars Curiosity Rover school report:
** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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KSC's new Launch Pad 39C will provide access for small class rocket launches:
Fancy talking to the ISS, well a UK amateur radio enthusiast did from his shed:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...stronaut_from_garden_shed_in_gloucestershire/
How to do it:
http://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/0...stronaut_from_garden_shed_in_gloucestershire/
How to do it:
http://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html
Exhibition coming to the Science Museum: Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/cosmonauts.aspx
From: 18 September 2015 – 13 March 2016
Already got my ticket.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/cosmonauts.aspx
From: 18 September 2015 – 13 March 2016
Already got my ticket.
Update on the scientific research being carried out aboard the station:
So how do you move a rocket to the pad:
ISS Expedition 44 commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko are about to start their spacewalk. Live here:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
Yesterday's spacewalk to replace and upgrade experiment and communications equipment on the Russian segment of the complex, clean windows on the Zvezda Service Module and measure thruster plume contamination on the hull of the station:
Space food...
'One small bite for man, one giant lettuce for mankind'
'One small bite for man, one giant lettuce for mankind'
That lettuce again this time in 4k:
Sampling red romaine lettuce which was grown as part of the Veggie experiment after it had spent 33 days growing aboard the station.
Sampling red romaine lettuce which was grown as part of the Veggie experiment after it had spent 33 days growing aboard the station.
Successful full duration (535 seconds) verification test of the RS-25 rocket engine that will power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), America's next generation heavy-lift launch vehicle:
Test sequence at starts at 28:00.
Test sequence at starts at 28:00.
The Russian ISS Progress 58 cargo craft undocks from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module as it departs from the station:
The launch of the HTV5 (H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 5 with the H-II Transfer Vehicle “KOUNOTORI5” (HTV5)) from the Tanegashima Space Center is now set for the 17th at 13:35 BST (08:35 EDT).
More from JAXA:
http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2015/08/20150814_h2bf5.html
More from JAXA:
http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2015/08/20150814_h2bf5.html
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Bad weather has delayed the launch of HTV5. Launch now scheduled for Wednesday, August 19 at 12:50 BST (07:50 EDT).
Wouldn't a pre-launch trip to Baikonur Cosmodrome be great...
Launch of an Ariane 5 with the Eutelsat-8 West B and Intelsat-34 satellites from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana: