Virgin Galactic Spaceship Death No Surprise
The death of one pilot and serious injury of another during a flight of Virgin Galactic Spaceshiptwo was no surprise at all. A serious accident destroyed the vehicle 45,000 feet…
Category Archives: Manned Space
Orbital Antares Rocket Explodes During Wallops IIS Launch
Approximately six seconds after liftoff an Antares rocket appeared to stall and fall back to the launchpad where it exploded at the Wallops Island launch facility. The International Space Station…
ISS Antares Resupply Launch Monday Oct.27 View-able from NE U.S.
UPDATE – Launch was scrubbed due to a boat down range . The new launch time is now Tuesday night at 6:22 p.m. Managers for Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia,…
File This Under Cool. Amazing Flame in Zero G Experiment
Amazing Flame Comes to Life in Space Station Microgravity Combustion Science I am not sure why but I think this is just cool. It reminded me of the zero G…
Delayed – Rocket launch of Orb-2 IIS launch view from North Eastern U.S. Now Sunday
Update Saturday 7/12/13 – Private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences postponed the launch of its second unmanned mission to the International Space Station due to weather at Wallops Island. Now the mission is…
Watch Cargo Spacecraft Dock at Space Station April 9th
NASA Television will air live the launch and docking of another to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday, April 9. The ISS Progress 54 cargo ship, which arrived at…
Cubesat Satellites “Launched” From Space Station.
Technology allows us to put more and more capability in smaller and smaller packages. This week a set of Cubesats was placed into orbit by the ISS. A set of…
Antares Launch to ISS from Wallops Successful
At 1:07pm ET 1/9/14 Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket launched from Pad 0A at the Wallops Flight Facility, Va. to send the company’s Cygnus cargo ship on a its first supply…
