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First ‘home grown’ British astronaut heads to International Space Station
A former army helicopter pilot was on Monday named as the first “home-grown” British astronaut to head to the International Space Station. Major Tim Peake, 41, will fly out to the ISS in November 2015 as part of a six-man crew, becoming the first Briton ever to travel to space…
Russian spaceship carrying oxygen and fresh fuel may fail to dock with International Space Station
An unmanned Russian spaceship carrying 2.5 tonnes of cargo may be unable to properly dock with the International Space Station after its navigation antenna failed to properly deploy, Interfax said on Thursday. The news agency report cited a Russian space industry source as saying that the Progress cargo carrier may…
Three astronauts blast off for ISS in Russian craft
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts blasted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft took off on schedule at 1212 GMT carrying Russian Roman Romanenko, NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield,…
Report: Space debris threatens International Space Station
The International Space Station is in danger of being hit by two pieces of debris from an old Russian satellite that had previously hit a US craft in 2009, a news report said on Wednesday. The space station will encounter pieces of the Kosmos 2251 military spy orbiter in the…
Singer Sarah Brightman could be next International Space Station tourist
British soprano Sarah Brightman could become the next space tourist to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS), a senior official at the Russian space agency hinted Wednesday. The singer, 52, known for her roles in West End musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera is being considered…
International Space Station docks SpaceX’s Dragon capsule
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station reached out and caught SpaceX’s Dragon capsule for docking at the orbiting lab on Friday in a historic first for commercial spaceflight. The California-based SpaceX, owned by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, has now reached the climax of its test mission to become the first…
SpaceX completes fly-under at International Space Station
A first of its kind demonstration flight by SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on Thursday successfully completed a key milestone in its mission — a fly-under of the International Space Station, NASA said. The privately owned spacecraft “passed directly below the ISS at a distance of 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles), fulfilling all…
Europe makes its heaviest space launch ever
An automated craft laden with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) headed into space on Friday in the heaviest launch ever undertaken by Europe. The 20-tonne vessel, named after 20th-century Italian physicist, Edoardo Amaldi, blasted off atop a heavyweight version of the Ariane 5 launcher at 01:34 am (0434…
Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launch
MOSCOW — A Russian satellite on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after its launch due to rocket failure, the defense ministry said, in the latest humiliating setback for Russia’s embattled space programme. The failure of the Soyuz-2.1B rocket — a member of the same family that Russia uses to send humans to…
‘Weightless’ teachers eye giant science leap
“Excited,” “nervous,” “terrified” — just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying “weightless” flight all for the cause of science, naturally. The 30 classroom professionals donned blue “astronaut” jumpsuits to defy gravity in the skies above California, in a project designed to help…
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