Shuttles on the Move
On June 3, two Space Shuttles were on the move. The Enterprise flight model took to the seas on a barge in an attempt to reach its new home, the New... Read more →
ESTEC-based editor oversees magazine aiming to make space safer
Space Safety Magazine Issue 3 Source: ESA By day Andrea Gini is part of ESTEC’s TEC-QI team, assessing the safety of payloads due to fly to... Read more →
Iran Aims High with New Space Center and Plans to Send Living Organisms into Space
Iran plans to emerge as an important player in the space sector, with Iranian officials announcing a few days ago that the country's first satellite... Read more →
Chase Plane Captures A Graceful Dragon Landing
On May 31, while the Dragon made its way back home from its history-making rendezvous with the International Space Station, a P-3 Orion Glance... Read more →
NASA Considered Manned Venus Fly-by in 1967
On June 5, Venus will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth, becoming visible from Earth as a small black disk in front of the Sun. It is... Read more →
Copenhagen Suborbitals Completes Manned Parachute Test
On the one year anniversary of Copenhagen Suborbitals' June 3, 2011 test launch of their HEAT1X rocket carrying the Tycho-Brahe spacecraft, the... Read more →