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Exploded Rocket Fragments Could Endanger ISS and Future Missions

The International Space Station will have to look out for new debris from an exploded Russian rocket (NASA image) Traveling…

12 years ago

Expedition 32 Crew Lifts Off

At 9:40 p.m. CDT a Soyuz TMA-05M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Expedition 32 Commander Yuri…

12 years ago

Expedition 31 Blasts Off!

[/caption] After a six-week delay, the crew of Expedition 31 successfully launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-04M rocket on Tuesday, May…

13 years ago

From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth

[/caption] Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto…

13 years ago

Moscow At Night

[/caption] Tracing a bright star upon the Earth, the lights of Russia's capital city blaze beyond the solar panels of…

13 years ago

Budget Axe to Gore America’s Future Exploration of Mars and Search for Martian Life

[/caption] America’s hugely successful Mars Exploration program is apparently about to be gutted by Obama Administration officials wielding a hefty…

13 years ago

Russia To Try Again For Phobos-Grunt?

[/caption] Russia says "eish odin ras"* for its Mars moon lander mission, according to Roscomos chief Vladimir Popovkin. If the European…

13 years ago

Soyuz Poised for High Stakes November 13 Blastoff – Space Stations Fate Hinges on Success

[/caption] The stakes could not be higher for the Russian Soyuz rocket now poised at the launch pad at Baikonur…

13 years ago

Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 Encapsulated for Voyage to Mars and Phobos

[/caption] Phobo-Grunt, Russia’s first interplanetary mission in nearly two decades, has now been encapsulated inside the payload fairing and sealed…

13 years ago