Jim LeBlanc Survives Early Spacesuit Vacuum Test Gone Wrong
Jim LeBlanc in the vacuum chamber before he lost pressurization and consciousness (Credits: NASA.) What happens when a space suit depressurizes in... Read more →
Crew Selected for Year Long Mission to ISS
Source: NASA Veteran spacefarers Scott Kelly (NASA, left) and Mikhail Kornienko (Roscosmos, right) will make the first ever yearlong sojourn on... Read more →
Reentering Soyuz Displays Tail of Plasma
On November 19, International Space Station Expedition 33 returned to Earth. As their Soyuz TMA-05M began its descent, the Expedition 34 crew saw a... Read more →
Radiation on Mars Lower than Expected, Curiosity Measurements Suggest
As the wait for the breakthrough Curiosity announcement recently discussed in media worldwide goes on, let us introduce another rather surprising... Read more →
The Mighty Saturn Rocket
On November 9, 1967, 45 years ago, the mighty Saturn V made its unmanned maiden flight. Powered by five F-1 rocket engines on its first stage, five... Read more →
ESA STE-QUEST Mission Could Help Unravel Origin of Flyby Anomaly
General concept of the STE-QUEST mission. The clock on the satellite is compared with one or more ground clocks as the satellite orbits earth on a... Read more →