But like many people of a certain age, I know the difference between today and the last extended interregnum in American spaceflight. One of my first memories of television was watching a rocket launch that must have been the U.S. half of 1975’s sole Apollo-Soyuz Test Program mission. I...
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Skylab: The first American space station included a tricky set of spacewalks to repair Skylab after the facility was severely damaged during launch. Skylab hosted three crews and came down unexpectedly in 1981, mainly in rural Australia. Sally Ride was the first U.S. woman in space and the ...
After launch, the first groundstation to pick the S-band signal from JWST was the 10 m antenna from the Italian Space Agency in Malindi, Kenya. This groundstation commanded the telemetry rate to increase from 1 kbps to 4 kbps. After this, the spacecraft’s footprint continued moving to ...
Although Orion is relatively new, the spacecraft underwent rigorous testing in preparation for carrying humans away fromEarth. The abort system, which will provide the crew with the ability to escape if an emergency occurs on the launch pad, was successfully tested at White Sands Missile Range in...
the reason we can’t go back to the Moon today is because we don’t have a rocket powerful enough. The Saturn V, the crowning achievement of Wernher von Braun’s rocketeers, was the most powerful rocket ever built. It had a perfect launch success record, and brought our Apollo astronaut...
But the Starliner’s development has been far from smooth,failing a test flight in 2019due to multiple issues before reaching the ISS in a second test flight that took three years of careful preparation. Since then, ongoing issues have caused NASA to delay the launch of its first crewed fli...
Duran Duran at Cape Canaveral: playing their space-themed hits to honour the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon launch. (Getty) ❏ KSC setlist– The Universe Alone, Planet Earth/Space Oddity, Anyone Out There, Astronaut, Ordinary World, (Reach Up for the) Sunrise, Walking on the Mo...
The current situation for NASA is not all that pleasant. Two ambitious missions that NASA had hoped to launch to Mars, in 2016 and 2018, will be canceled. The first would have sent an orbiter to measure gases in the Martian atmosphere — methane in particular, since methane does not last...
“Starliner ascends to the heavens! Congratulations to @NASA, @BoeingSpace, and @ulalaunch. Today’s launch is a milestone achievement for the future of spaceflight. Butch and Suni—safe travels through the stars. See you back home.” SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk, whose company ...