This remarkable graphic keeps track of all safety issues that have occurred from the beginning of manned spaceflight through today. The graphic is the responsibility of the Flight Safety Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to, as they put it “provide continuing visibility of the risks inherent with space exploration and provide engineers with a summary of past experience. It [...]
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Space Safety Magazine, Issue 5, Fall 2012
Inside the Fall 2012 Issue of Space Safety Magazine The International Space Safety Foundation Advisory Council Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride: Their Safety Legacy Curiosity: The Path to Success Legal Issues of Space Debris Remediation Falling Free from the Edge of Space Tai Chi: Taking Wellness to Space Taking Potentially Hazardous Asteroids Seriously Commercial Human Spaceflight Safety in the 21st [...]
Ariane-5 Glitch Delays Indian Satellite Launch
The September 22 launch of Indian communication satellite GSAT-10 has been delayed one week following the discovery of a damaged hose connecting the launch vehicle to its launch pad. “While carrying out inspections the Arianespace has found that the air hose connecting the launch pad and the vehicle had a small damage,” said Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chairman K [...]
NASA Commercial Partner SpaceX Completes Crew Accommodations Milestone
Source: NASA. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 8, 2012 (NASA PR) — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has finished an important evaluation of a prototype Dragon spacecraft designed to carry people into orbit. This key milestone is part of SpaceX’s partnership with NASA under a funded Space Act Agreement to advance the design of crew transportation vehicles. The primary goal of the [...]
International Space Station Symposium Begins
The European Space Agency has organized ISS Symposium 2012 to take place in Berlin May 2 through May 4. The symposium, subtitled “Research in space for the benefit of humankind,” aims to pull together the station partner agencies for the purpose of reviewing past and future progress in fundamental and applied research. “With the assembly of the International Space Station [...]
American Spacecrafts in Display (Infographic)
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration For more than 50 years, Americans have been launching into space, first aboard tiny capsules and later on the winged, reusable space shuttles and space station. Much of that long space legacy is on display at museums across the United States. See where you can find some of the most [...]
ATV Successfully Docks with ISS
Source: ESA ESA’s ATV Edoardo Amaldi has completed the first stage of its docking with the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station. The docking occurred smoothly when ATV’s docking probe was captured by Zvezda’s docking cone at 00:31 CEST ( 22:31 GMT). The docking probe is now retracting, to be followed by the hooks between the two craft closing. The data [...]
Russia is Developing a Nuclear Space Engine by 2017
According to press agency RIA Novosti, Russia is developing a Megawatt-class nuclear propulsion system for long-range manned spacecraft. “At present we are testing several types of fuel,” said Denis Kovalevich, Skolkovo Foundation’s Nuclear Cluster head, “the engine is expected to be ready by 2017.” The source reports a government allocation of 500 million rubles ($16.7 million) in 2010 to start a project of a [...]
China Announces Ambitious Space Program
China plans to send people to the Moon as part of its new space policy, announced on December 29 in a paper entitled “China’s Space Activities in 2011.” The manned lunar mission is considered to be a symbol that will highlight the status of China as a space power equal to the USA and Russia. The mission would be the first manned lunar mission [...]
Possible Identities of Chinese Astronauts Revealed
A pair of international space observers claim to have discovered the names of China’s second group of astronauts, or “taikonauts” the identities of whom have been a closely-guarded secret. The alleged discovery was made by Tony Quine, a spaceflight memorabilia collector and contributor to the British Interplanetary Society’s Spaceflight magazine, who discovered a postmarked envelope on a German space dealer’s [...]
