UARS Reentry Expected by September 23
The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) during deployment from Space Shuttle Discovery in September 1991 (Credits: NASA Marshall Space Flight... Read more →
Soyuz TMA-21 Landing: Pictures and Video
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls took an extraordinary picture of Soyuz TMA-21 gliding to Earth in its parachute with an almost-full-moon in... Read more →
Columbia Tank Found on Lakebed
A tank from Shuttle Columbia (Source: NASA). An aluminum tank from Space Shuttle Columbia has been found in Lake Nacogdoches, Texas in August... Read more →
Lessons Learned: Mir Collision
The Spektr module of the Mir spacestation. Notice the broken solar panel (Source: NASA). On June 25, 1997, the Progress M-34 spacecraft crashed... Read more →
Soyuz TMA-21 returns to Earth
Soyuz TMA-21, carrying NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev & Andrey Borisenko, landed in the Kazakhstan... Read more →
IAASS Space Safety Pioneer Award 2011 to Bryan O’Connor
The International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) have selected Bryan O'Connor as the recipient of the IAASS Jerome Lederer... Read more →