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

[Cosimo]

Just before capture:

 

[Glaucus]

Here you go Cosimo get your credit cards out.

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[Cosimo]

Cygnus arrival:

Cygnus mating:

 

[Cosimo]

Scott Kelly back in Star City talks about the one year mission:

 

[Cosimo]

Progress MS-2/Soyuz 2-1A continues to be prepared for launch:

Launch to the station is scheduled for March 31 at 16:20 UTC.

 

[Yetiii]

I am lucky enough to be in Florida during the next SpaceX launch on 8th April. Can anyone provide some advice so I can get a good view of the launch?

Is it best to visit Kennedy that day or shall i watch elsewhere and plan my visit to the space center on another day?

 

[Glaucus]

Best to get on spaced reedit and ask, or search for similar thread of which there's a few

And you lucky sod.

 

[Khrest]

Jetty Park is a great spot. We watched a satellite launch from there about 5 years ago (Stereo; pair of satellites to study solar outbursts). There's a long fisherman's pier out in the sea at Jetty Park and if you get there early enough you can great probably the best view of the launch pads at Canaveral AFB.

Looking at Wikpedia, it seems they use launch complex 40 these days which is at the north end of the Air Force base. Therefore you might be better parking around the cruise ship terminals in Port Canaveral and watching across the Banana River lagoon. Do some research online beforehand as I recall there being a lot of nice wide verge at the side of the road where you could pull over. I dont think you can get any closer without entering the AFB, which is a real no-no....

Knowing SpaceX it will probably take 3 attempts to launch, but good luck, it's an amazing thing to watch.

 

[Cosimo]

Some video of Cygnus arrival shot with the high definition camera of the HDEV experiment on the International Space Station:

 

[Cosimo]

A nice 4K timelapse of ExoMars preparation and launch on the 14th:

 

[Cosimo]

Progress MS-2/Soyuz 2-1A rollout:

Launch to the station is scheduled for March 31 at 16:20 UTC and will be live on NASA TV..

 

[Cosimo]

Tim Peake speaks to Sky News:

 

[Cosimo]

More on the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM):

 

[Cosimo]

Game Changing Development Program:

The Game Changing Development Program is a part of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The Program advances space technologies that may lead to entirely new approaches for the Agency’s future space missions and provide solutions to significant national needs.

Mission Animation:

More:

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_development/index.html

 

[Cosimo]

The Russian ISS Progress 61 cargo ship undockes from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station:

 

[Nazbit]

What are they trying to show when they picture the different expansion possibilities of beam? They all look the same to me?

 

[Cosimo]

Progress launch today:

Launch set for 17:23 BST and will be live here:

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

 

[Cosimo]

Another link for Progress launch:

 

[Cosimo]

Progress launch:

 

[Cosimo]

We have another 360° view. The International Space Station’s fourth module, Destiny. Launched on 7 February 2001 on Space Shuttle Atlantis:

The American module is the heart of the non-Russian part of the Station according to ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (who took the pictures to create this view). The module allows experiments to be performed in many disciplines, from biology to physics, including a rack for burning liquids in weightlessness and the European Microgravity Science Glovebox.