Space Shuttle Service Ship Embarks on a New Mission
For 30 years Liberty Star, a sea ship owned by NASA, served the Space Shuttle program. It retrieved the spent solid rocket boosters after their... Read more →
AfriSpace: “The Biggest Project”
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at the meeting of Africa’s communications and IT ministers (Credits: AFP). At a meeting of Africa’s... Read more →
Synchronized Tumbling: Developing a Space Debris Removal Skill
Astronaut Scott Kelly shows off the SPHERES satellites on ISS (Credits: NASA). In-orbit rendezvous is a potential solution to address space... Read more →
Cost of Russian Space Failures
A spate of failed launches from Russian space agency Roscosmos in recent years was cogently described by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on September... Read more →
Proton Failure Fall-out Continues
A Proton-M rocket (Credits: RIA Novosti/Oleg Urusov). On August 6, a Proton-M rocket failed to place two satellites into their proper orbits... Read more →
Flight Surgeons: Keeping A Healthy Crew
In the interview below, NASA Medical Flight Officer Steve Gilmore lends some insight into the job of a Flight Surgeon and how the ISS medical staff... Read more →