Two astronauts who are aboard the International Space Station will walk in space today (May 16) outside the ISS. It is possible to watch the 6.5-hour spacewalk or what is known as the extravehicular activity online as well. The flight engineers of expedition 55 Drew Feustel, as well as Ricky Arnold, will come out of […]
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Astronaut Feustel Receives Honorary Degree from the Purdue University; He addresses Graduating Students from the ISS.
The commencement ceremony at Purdue University this weekend took an interesting turn this weekend. The university awarded one astronaut who is currently staying at the International Space Station. Astronaut Andrew J. “Drew” Feustel received an honorary doctorate from the Purdue University. Feustel is also an alumnus of the University; he studied solid earth sciences for […]
New Mission Aims to Learn More About the Giant Lightning from Space
The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor will be launched to the International Space Station to observe the electrical spectacle that occurs above thunderstorms. The effects of thunderstorms are often observed from the ISS, but something different is taking place above the cloud tops when lightning strikes down. The strange occurrence is called Transient Luminous Events and was […]
Extension alert of Boeing`s first crewed flight to the International Space Station
NASA seems interested in extending the space time of the first crewed flight of Boeing to the International Space Station. Revisiting the original plan (of two members), an extra crew member might also be included in the space ship. Starliner of Boeing will be taking NASA astronauts for the very first time this year. The […]
NASA Plans to Extend Boeing’s first flight to the ISS
NASA’s Boeing’s first crewed flight all the way to the International Space Station will take longer than the planned period of time. The mission may also include extra crew member to have a long ride too. The Starliner vehicle of the company is expected to take the astronauts of NASA to the ISS for the […]
NASA – Exploring the Unknown
Humans are interested in everything about universe and heavens. They are always driven to explore the unknown things and to discover new worlds and planets. People are curious in nature and we tend to push to our boundaries just to further explore. The strong will and desire to explore is what triggers people to know […]
Servie action of Canadarm2 enters second phase
After two spacewalks in October 2017 when NASA astronauts replaced old LEE-A grapple from Canadarm2, now time has come to start service action of LEE-B. Latching End Effectors A and Latching End Effectors B are installed on the both ends of the Canadarm2 and let robotic arm to move freely around International Space Station from one […]
End of the OA-8E mission
Today Orbital ATK OA-8E robotic cargo spacecraft finished its lasting 36 days mission. Cygnus OA-8E S.S. Eugene Cernan was launched on the top of the from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport LP-02 on November 12, 2017 at 12:51 UTC . It reached International Space Station two days later and it was attached to Unity nadir docking port. […]
International Space Station after course correction
International Space Station passed through orbit correction maneuver on September 28, 2017 to prepare for docking of Progress MS-07 planned for October. Course correction was performed on September 28, 2017. Mission Control Center in Korolev sent commands to Progress MS-06 docked to Zvezda module since June 16, 2017. Spacecraft was remotely ordered to initialize its […]
Dragon delivered to Port of Los Angeles after 29 days in space
Capsule of the robotic cargo spacecraft Dragon was delivered Yesterday to Port of Los Angeles from where it will start its journey to another SpaceX facility. Dragon was launched on June 3, 2017 on the top of the Falcon-9 rocket from LC-39A launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. It delivered to International Space Station 2708 kg […]