Press Releases

ATV-4’s Hatch Opened Despite Cargo Bag Contamination

By Matteo Emanuelli on June 18, 2013

First view from ISS inside ATV-4, shortly after final hatch opening (Credits: ESA/Lionel Ferra). The hatch of the newly docked Autonomous... Read more →

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Sally Ride and Valentina Tereshkova: Changing the Course of Human Space Exploration

By Staff Writers on June 18, 2013

June 2013 marked the anniversary of two significant events in the history of space exploration--the flight of Valentina Tereshkova 50 years ago on... Read more →

Astronauts and Cosmonauts

Mystery of Yuri Gagarin’s Death Solved

By Merryl Azriel on June 18, 2013

First man in space, Yuri Gagarin (left) with fellow cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov, the first man to undertake a spacewalk (Credits: RIA Novosti). Yuri... Read more →

News

ExoMars Enters Final Phase of Construction

By Phillip Keane on June 18, 2013

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (Credits: ESA). ESA's ExoMars program has entered the final stage of construction by signing a hardware contract... Read more →

The Russian Launch Failures Of 2010-2014

Accepting the Risk of Death in Spaceflight

By Merryl Azriel on June 17, 2013

Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen have been developing Copenhagen Suborbitals, the open source, backyard endeavor they founded to launch... Read more →

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Cella Energy Hydrogen Pellets: Fuel Storage And Radiation Protection

By Renee Garifi on June 17, 2013

Cella Energy's new hydrogen fuel, in pellet and fiber form (Credits: Cella Energy). Dr. Stephen Perusich, Senior Scientist at Cella Energy’s... Read more →