Category Archives: Manned Space

NASA Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson Leaves Agency

HOUSTON — NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has left the space agency. Robinson ends his 36-year NASA career as a veteran of three spacewalks with more than 48 days of spaceflight…

First Chinese Woman Astronaut returns today.

China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft  returned to Earth with its three crew members following a 13-day mission today including China’s first female Astronaut Liu Yang, State television showed images of the capsule…

NASA Administrator To Speak With NEEMO 16 Crew During Underwater ‘Spacewalk’

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will speak with astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, commander of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission, and her fellow crewmate Timothy Peake of…

China Launches Astronauts to it’s Station, Including First Female

China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, powered by a Long March 2F rocket, was shown live on state television from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert in western China.  On…

China Announced The Astronaut Crew for Saturday Launch

China has announced the three people it will be sending up for its first manned docking spaceflight, to be launched Saturday, June 16. The crew of the Shenzhou 9 space docking mission met…

China to Launch First Manned Mission to Orbiting Space Laboratory

China will launch its first manned mission to its orbiting space laboratory in mid-June, according to state media reports and the country’s human spaceflight agency. They will be using a March…

What is the future of Spaceflight? SLS, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic?

Looking at the future of manned spaceflight, and even the future of non-manned spaceflight can be confusing. There are so many players building launch capability for the U.S. it can…

China will place Astronauts on their space lab in August

China placed a space lab Tiangong-1 int orbit last September 2011, were you paying attention? It has been on orbit and undergoing checkout operations. This August they have announced that…