CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Astronauts are spacewalking outside the International Space Station for the first time in half a year. Monday’s spacewalk got started late because of a leaky valve on the Russian side of the orbiting outpost. The crew had to reopen the air lock and check the seals to ensure a tight fit, before Russians Gennady Padalka and Yuri Malenchenko could go out Continue reading
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Private mission to space station scrubbed half a second before liftoff
From John Zarrella, CNN updated 11:23 PM EDT, Sat May 19, 2012 | SpaceX: Launch abort ‘not a failure’ STORY HIGHLIGHTS (CNN) — SpaceX’s launch of the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been rescheduled for next week after the mission was aborted Saturday a half a second before liftoff, the company said. The historic launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with its Dragon capsule filled with food, supplies and science experiments, was halted when a flight computer detected “high pressure in the engine 5 combustion chamber,” the company said in a statement. “We have discovered the root cause and repairs are underway,” it said Continue reading