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

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Launch scheduled for 6th September.

More:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ladee/main/index.html

 

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HTV-4 prepares to leave the space station. It will be released from the space station's Canadarm2 at about 17:00 BST (12:00 EDT). Now live on NASA TV:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream

 

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Test flight to the Space Station of Orbital's Cygnus cargo craft:

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Launch is scheduled for Tuesday, September 17th.

More on Cygnus:

http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/Publications/Cygnus_fact.pdf

 

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Cygnus mission visualised:

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Launch 17th September at 16:16 BST (11:16 EDT)

 

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A first:

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Kirobo arrived at the space station aboard HTV-4.

 

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More on Cygnus:

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The future of design at space x, awesome.

Now hurry up and launch that darn falcon 9 v1.1

 

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LADEE is now set for launch at 04:27 BST on Saturday (23:27 EDT today) from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.

Mission home:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ladee/main/index.html

 

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Up and into orbit:

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Mission Press Kit

 

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Another view of the August 13th test:

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The ongoing demonstrations with Robonaut:

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More:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/robonaut.html

 

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I guess that the target audience will get confused with some words.

 

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Expedition 36 returns home:

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Expedition 37 (Soyuz TMA-10M) is due to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the 25th September.

 

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Celebrating NASA's 50th Anniversary in 2008:

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More:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/50th/main.html

Great choice of music.

 

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Meet the new member of the NASA team:

Frog launching with LADEE mission at the Wallops Flight Facility last Friday.