ATV Entering Final Preparations for June Launch
ATV transfered on a giant skid to the S5B preparation zone in Kourou (Credits: ESA). The European Space Agency’s (ESA) fourth Automated... Read more →
NASA May Be Requesting $100 Million for Asteroid Mission
Keck's asteroid capture concept (Credits: Rick Sternbach/Keck Institute for Space Studies). According to Aviation Week, NASA’s budget request... Read more →
Tim Pickens on Watching Your Rocket Engine’s First Test Flight
Now chief propulsion engineer for Google Lunar X Prize team Moon Express, Tim Pickens is an old hand at X Prizes. In 2004, Pickens designed the... Read more →
Training for Fear: the Creation of Inner Space Training
Howard realized during her training at NASTAR that there were no courses helping people to deal with stress and fear relating to space experience... Read more →
Secret Colors of the ISS
Most pictures of the International Space Station don't show much color, we generally see metallic and white elements. The inactive golden colored... Read more →
Behind the Six Hour Trip to ISS
On March 29, the first crew enjoyed a shortened trip aboard their Soyuz TMA-08M, totaling fewer than six hours down from two days. How was this... Read more →