UK astronaut Tim Peake to go to International Space Station Major Tim Peake, 41, has been chosen to complete the lengthy stay in orbit in 2015, when he will be blasted into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket and take par… By: WLNNews Continue reading
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s space station guitar built in Vancouver
For Larrive Guitars, the publicity was quite literally out of this world, and the dollar value from it continues to add up. Images of Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield playing its Vancouver-made Parlor guitar sparked enough interest for the company to put the model back into production for a limited edition Continue reading
Star is born from space station
Breathtaking images of WA are among the thousands of photographs captured from space by astronaut and global celebrity Chris Hadfield. The Canadian spaceman returned to Earth this week as a social media sensation after five months on board the International Space Station. Each day, Commander Hadfield posted photos from different parts of the globe, including many images of Australia. Continue reading
Russian cargo craft uses thrusters to adjust orbit of space station
MOSCOW, May 17 (UPI) — A Russian Progress M-19M resupply spacecraft attached to the International Space Station was used to adjust the station’s orbit Friday, Russian officials say. The space freighter’s engines were run for slightly more than 15 minutes to raise the ISS’s orbit by about 1.6 miles, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The station’s orbit is now 259 miles above the Earth, RIA Novosti reported. Continue reading
Research and Markets: Analyzing the Russian Aerospace & Defense Industry in 2013
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/rrjwph/analyzing_the) has announced the addition of the “Analyzing the Russian Aerospace & Defense Industry” report to their offering. Aruvians Rsearch’s Analyzing the Russian Aerospace and Defense Industry provides a well grounded research analysis of the Russian Aerospace & Defense Industry. This report aims to help investors and analysts understand the emergence of the Russian Aerospace and Defense Industry Continue reading
Space Station Astronauts Home
May 14, 2013: Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), left, Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.NASA/AP This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space.AP MOSCOW A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
Space Station Crew Returns to Earth Tonight: How to Watch it Live
After months living in space, two astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will return home from the International Space Station tonight (May 13) and you can watch their landing live online. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American astronaut Tom Marshburn and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are preparing to leave the space station aboard a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft for a planned landing at 10:31 p.m. EDT (0231 May 14 GMT) on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan, where the local time will be early Tuesday morning. Continue reading
Star space station commander and crew make it home
A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA physician-astronaut and outgoing Canadian space station commander Chris Hadfield, whose deft use of social media turned him into an orbital superstar, undocked and plunged back to Earth Monday to close out a five-month stay in space. Two days after an impromptu spacewalk to fix a coolant leak — and one day after a YouTube video of Hadfield singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” went viral with more than 1.5 million views — Hadfield, Thomas Marshburn and Soyuz TMA-07M commander Roman Romanenko undocked from the station at 7:08 p.m. ET. Continue reading
Russian capsule touches down in Kazakhstan with space station trio
A Soyuz capsule brings three spacefliers back to Earth after five months in orbit. By Miriam Kramer, Space.com A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a crew of three space travelers successfully touched down on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan on Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month mission to the International Space Station. Canadianastronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko landed in their Soyuz capsule atabout 8:31 a.m Continue reading
NASA astronauts on spacewalk to fix leak
NASA astronauts are performing an emergency spacewalk to try to stop ammonia from leaking from the International Space Station’s power system, NASA television shows. During the spacewalk, expected to last six and a half hours, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy will inspect and possibly repair the ammonia leak that affected the US segment of the orbiting laboratory on Thursday. ‘Spacewalk under way to repair ammonia leak,’ said the headline of a US space agency statement. Continue reading
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buying paintings futurism ?Buying Paintings: Futurism A 20th century art movement with its euro; trade; roots in Italian and Russian beginnings, Futurism is said to have largely began with th… Continue reading
NASA: Coolant leak on ISS no threat to crew
NASA flight controllers were monitoring an ammonia coolant leak on one of the International Space Station’s solar panel arrays, NASA officials said late Thursday. The space agency said the crew of the ISS was not in any danger due to the leak on the station’s left-side power truss. The leak was reported by the station crew around 11:30 a.m Continue reading
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NASA Television to Air Space Station Soyuz Landing
WASHINGTON — NASA Television will provide live coverage May 12-14 as three crew members aboard the International Space Station end five months in orbit and return to Earth for a scheduled landing May 13. Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Tom Marshburn of NASA and Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will undock their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from the station at 7:08 p.m Continue reading
Near Miss – Dead Russian Spy Satellite Forces NASA Probe Move | Video – Video
Near Miss – Dead Russian Spy Satellite Forces NASA Probe Move | Video A cold war era satellite (Kosmos 1805) and NASA's Fermi spacecraft came within 30 milliseconds of occupying the same space. Continue reading
NASA Agrees to Pay Russians $70 Million Per Astronaut
By Rich Smith | More Articles May 4, 2013 | NASA will be hitching rides on Russian rockets for at least three more years. Last week, NASA announced the signing of a $424 million extension of its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, also known as Roscosmos, hiring the latter to transport U.S., Canadian, European, and Japanese astronauts to the International Space Station through 2016 Continue reading
English News Today – Russia and Japan to discuss disputed islands – Video
English News Today – Russia and Japan to discuss disputed islands http://www.youtube.com/EnglishNewsToday English News Today Plz Subscrib for Latest News Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Moscow to meet Russian Presi… By: EnglishNewsToday Continue reading
Russia Charging NASA $70 Million per Spaceship Seat
Commercial space flight is something NASA supports. The agency is working with Boeing, Space Exploration Technologies and Sierra Nevada Corp. to develop space taxis. Continue reading
NASA to pay Russia $68m per rocket seat
The cost of a ride to the International Space Station (ISS) just shot up like a rocket. Continue reading
NASA, Russia Near Collision
NASA’s $690 million Fermi space telescope was nearly hit by the dead Russian spy satellite Cosmos 1805 on April 3, 2013. This NASA graphic depicts the orbital paths of the two spacecraft.NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.NASA This NASA graphic depicts the amount of space junk currently orbiting Earth. The debris field is based on data from NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office Continue reading