Shenzhou-9 Returns Safely to Earth
Ground crew help the Shenzhou-9 taikoanuts out of their capsule (Credits: Shanghai Daily). On June 29, the three member Shenzhou-9 crew landed in... Read more →
B612 Foundation Invites Public to Save Earth
The B612 Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by astronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart, has announced plans to launch Sentinel, an asteroid... Read more →
MDA Acquires Loral Space Satellite Unit
MDA's Canadarm flew for the first time on Space Shuttle mission STS-2, Nov. 1981 (Credits: NASA). MacDonald, Dettwile & Associates (MDA) has... Read more →
Expedition 31 to End with Crew Departure July 1
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (center), Expedition 31 commander; along with NASA astronaut Don Pettit (left) and European Space Agency astronaut... Read more →
Moon Landing or One Hit Wonder?
On June 27, the well-known comic xkcd which is written by ex-NASA robotics engineer Randall Munroe and self-identifies as "a webcomic of romance,... Read more →
Chinese President Hu Jintao Calls Space Lab
Chinese President Hu Jintao talks with three Chinese astronauts who are conducting scientific tests aboard the Tiangong-1 space lab module from the... Read more →