The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond

Cosimo · 4 Sep 2015 at 10:03

Expedition 45 Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency (Kazcosmos) arrive at the station:

Cosimo · 5 Sep 2015 at 06:53

Cosimo · 5 Sep 2015 at 08:51

Boeing unveils its Starliner facility at the Kennedy Space Center:

Starliner is expected to begin ferrying astronauts to the ISS within two years.

Glaucus · 8 Sep 2015 at 20:42

For those running windows 10 desktop or mobile.
There's now a launch app that will receive updates to improve it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/launchpal/9nblggh1xvhk

Doug73458 · 8 Sep 2015 at 20:49

Glaucus said:
For those running windows 10 desktop or mobile.
There's now a launch app that will receive updates to improve it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/launchpal/9nblggh1xvhk

Thanks mate, just what I needed!

Cosimo · 9 Sep 2015 at 06:17

An extended version of last week's MUOS-4 launch:

Cosimo · 9 Sep 2015 at 07:22

Two spectacular images...

Space Station Lunar Transit

The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, Woodford, VA. Onboard are; NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren: Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

International Space Station Transits the Sun

This composite image made from five frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of nine onboard, in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly 5 miles per second, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, Shenandoah National Park, Front Royal, VA. Onboard are; NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren: Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Volkov, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, Danish Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, and Kazakhstan Cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Cosimo · 10 Sep 2015 at 06:20

One rocket please, when can you deliver?

Cosimo · 11 Sep 2015 at 06:52

The Soyuz launch of Galileo satellites 9 and 10 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana:

Cosimo · 11 Sep 2015 at 07:52

SpaceX unveil the interior of their Crew Dragon capsule for manned missions:

More:

http://www.spacex.com/crew-dragon

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 06:27

Soyuz TMA-16M heads for home:

Cosimo · 12 Sep 2015 at 07:09

Commander Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency return home:

Cosimo · 13 Sep 2015 at 08:43

Cosimo · 13 Sep 2015 at 16:15

A reminder:

The exhibition: Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age opens on Friday at the Science Museum.

Cosimo · 14 Sep 2015 at 16:22

Rollout of a Proton-M rocket which will launch the Ekspress AM-8 communications satellite at Baikonur Cosmodrome later today:

Cosimo · 15 Sep 2015 at 06:20

A rare sight, the launch of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket:

Cosimo · 15 Sep 2015 at 07:05

A Ridley Scott moment, Mars here we come:

Cosimo · 15 Sep 2015 at 10:05

Now a Russian launch, a Proton-M rocket with the Ekspress AM-8 communications satellite going up last night:

Glaucus · 15 Sep 2015 at 17:51

Getting annoyed by all the ISS articles who are making it sound like this is a first. They haven't even broken the ISS record yet. And wont even come close to breaking the MIR record for length of time in space on a single mission.

Cosimo · 16 Sep 2015 at 07:22

ISS Research update:

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

The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond