Roscosmos Explains Soyuz Display Glitch
On September 10, the last three members of International Space Station Expedition 36 landed in Kazakhstan. At the time, it seemed like a... Read more →
Cross-Talk: Space Law in Down-To-Earth English
150 Shades of “Assumption” The phrase “assumption of risk” is an excellent illustration of the extent to which uncritical use of words... Read more →
Book Review of Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight
Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight was released on July 9 by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly... Read more →
European satellite GOCE Will Have an Uncontrolled Reentry
European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is preparing to... Read more →
That Time a Space Station Became Part of the Miss Universe Pageant
In 1979, a chunk of Skylab brought a whole new meaning to "world piece." The United States's first human-hosting orbital laboratory, Skylab, was... Read more →
Voyager 1’s Interstellar Journey Confirmed
After much back and forth, a new study seems to have determined once and for all that Voyager 1 is in interstellar space. "We literally jumped... Read more →