Category Archives: Manned Space

China Rocket Launch June 2013

China Launches Rocket placing Three Astronauts in orbit

China launched it’s Shenzhou-10 rocket into orbit with three astronauts or “Taikonauts” on board to dock with their Chinese-owned module called Tiangong-1. Currently China and Russia are the only nations capable of this….

Google Hangout Hosts ISS and Star Trek Into Darkness Crews

(Source NASA) –  Science fiction meets science fact this week as members if the ISS team meet the cast of Star Trek. The director, a writer and some actors in…

NASA Meatball

NASA 1961 goal Man on Moon in decade, 2013 goal Man in Orbit in four years

NASA just signed a deal with Russian for almost one half billion dollars to launch astronauts to the space station, 424 million to be exact. This deal will assure we…

First Antares launch from Wallops Island Virginia Succeeds!

The first launch from the new launch complex in Wallops Island Virginia is a success. After several weather delays the mission launched at 5:00pm eastern today April 21, 2013. The…

First Antares Wallops Virginia Launch April 17th

Launch will be seen buy much of East Coast Washington D.C. area. Orbital Sciences has been preparing to make the inaugural launch from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A Wallops launch complex in Wallops Island Va.The first fully-integrated…

Video of Expedition 35 Soyuz docking to ISS

This Video shows the view from the Soyuz capsule as it approaches and docks with the International Space Station (ISS). It is interesting to watch as the cross hairs move…

ISS Launch from Virginia Scheduled for April

Test Flight of Orbital’s Antares Rocket Scheduled for April 16-18 A test flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility…

Dragon Capsule Reaches ISS After Fixing Thrusters

SpaceX’s Dragon Carrying NASA Cargo Resupplies Space Station (Source NASA) – The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST…