NASA: Expedition 47 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) landed safely near the town of...
BEAM Opens Up For Checks
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module’s (BEAM) hatch was opened up for the first time today. Astronaut Jeff Williams entered BEAM and checked sensors, installed air ducts and reported back to Earth...
UBC astronomy student discovers 4 new planets beyond our solar system
For four years, the Kepler space telescope was fixated on one sector of the cosmos. It stared unblinkingly at the Cygnus constellation, trying to detect the slightest variation in star luminance....
Russia’s Glonass-M satellite delivered into interim orbit
A Fregat booster with a Glonass-M satellite separated from the third stage of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket at the designated time in a normal regime, the press office of the Russian Defense Ministry...
Prototype space station module inflated on NASA’s second try
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Saturday inflated an experimental fabric module that may provide a less expensive and safer option for housing crews during long stays in space,...
Researching How Life Adapts to Spaceflight
The crew was back at work today with more life science studies and human research. Cygnus cargo transfer work is ongoing as robotics controllers prepare for an external video survey. Mice continue...
Could ferocious lightning storms on other planets beam radio signals to Earth?
Ferocious lightning storms millions of times more powerful than those on Earth could be responsible for unexplained radio signals from planets orbiting other stars. That is the finding of...
