California Governor Signs Bill To Bolster Space Tourism
The space shuttle Endeavour, piggybacked atop of NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over the Los Angeles International Airport on Sept. 21,... Read more →
NASA Orion Splashdown Tests Ensure Safe Landings For Astronauts
Water impact test of an 18,000-pound (8,165 kilogram) test version of the Orion spacecraft dropped from 25 feet (7.62 meters) at NASA's Langley... Read more →
Canadian Researchers Developed a Body Scanner Suitable for ISS
On September 13, researchers from the University of Saskatchewan introduced a compact Magnetic Resonance Imager (MRI) at the annual conference... Read more →
New Space Station Crew Approved
The remainder of ISS Expedition 33. From left, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny... Read more →
Citizen Astronauts Train for Spaceflight
What does it take to be a citizen astronaut? Citizens in Space, a project of the US Rocket Academy, is sending ten citizen astronauts to space... Read more →
ISS Debris Avoidance Further Delays ATV-3 Departure
The International Space Station (Credits: ESA). The International Space Station partners are keeping a close eye on two pieces of debris that... Read more →