The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

Post-Challenger Kennedy Director Forrest McCartney Dead at 81

By Merryl Azriel on July 23, 2012

An autographed official NASA photograph of McCartney On July 17, Forrest McCartney, former NASA Kennedy Space Center Director and retired Air... Read more →

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HTV-3 En Route to International Space Station

By Merryl Azriel on July 23, 2012

HTV-2 on the end of ISS' Canadarm 2 in 2011 (Credits: JAXA). On Saturday, July 21 the H-II Transfer Vehicle-3 (HTV-3) launched from the... Read more →

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Next Generation Russian Crew Capsule Delayed

By Merryl Azriel on July 20, 2012

An interior model of the ACV (Credits: RIA Novosti). On July 18, Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin  announced that the Advanced Crew vessel... Read more →

National Space Programs

Taikonauts Feeling Good Following Historic Mission

By Maria Fischer on July 20, 2012

The Shenzhou 9 crew seated shortly after landing. The crew is no longer experiencing dizziness or the other sideeffects of microgravity (Credits:... Read more →

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Jon Collins Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Space Safety

By Staff Writers on July 20, 2012

Leonardo da Vinci, the prototypical Italian Renaissance man; Jon Collins, the Renaissance man of Space Safety. The International Association for... Read more →

Commercial Spaceflight

Mission Highlights: SpaceX’s Dragon Makes History

By Staff Writers on July 20, 2012

SpaceX's Dragon capsule on a barge after its May 31 splashdown (Credits: SpaceX). On May 25, 2012 SpaceX made history when the Dragon spacecraft... Read more →