** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
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Hope it went well! Be amazing if they pulled it off on this more difficult landing
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Musk tweeted it landed hard and hopes to do better next time, looks like it didn't make it
Scott Kelly about one year in space:
SpaceX SES-9 launch:
This week:
A look at the experiments (>400) carried out during the one year mission. Eighteen of which were to understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration spaceflight :
Looking at ULA's future Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage:
A look at ExoMars science:
More:
http://exploration.esa.int/mars/
Launch is set for March 14 @ 09:31 UTC from Baikonur.
More:
http://exploration.esa.int/mars/
Launch is set for March 14 @ 09:31 UTC from Baikonur.
ExoMars 2016 preparation as the scaffolding is being released from around the spacecraft composite, which is mounted with the Breeze upper stage on the conical launch vehicle adapter:
More ExoMars 2016 preparation as the spacecraft composite is being encased inside the launcher fairing. The first half of the fairing is rolled into place underneath the spacecraft assembly, and the second fairing half is manoeuvred into place by an overhead crane:
A chat with Tim Kopra and Tim Peake about life and work on the orbital laboratory:
More ExoMars 2016, building on past missions to Mars:
Celebrating Scott Kelly's and Mikhail Kornienko's year in space.
Volume up and full screen...
Volume up and full screen...
Rollout of Resurs-P#3 aboard a Soyuz 2-1B:
Due for launch on the 12th from Baikonur.
Due for launch on the 12th from Baikonur.
Hopefully the first of many 360° views of the space station. Here we have first module, Zarya. Launched on November 20th 1998:
Also known as the Functional Cargo Block, the module is now mainly used for storage.
Also known as the Functional Cargo Block, the module is now mainly used for storage.