South Korea to launch its own space rocket
AFP
South Korea will this month launch a satellite using its own rocket as part of a drive to join Asia’s space race, officials said Tuesday.
VIDEO: Unreasonable Rocket conducted the first free flight of its vehicle on July 11.
NASA UPDATE
Norman Augustine, chairman of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, will hold a media teleconference Friday, July 17, from 10 to 10:30 a.m. EDT, to give a status report and discuss the progress of the independent review.
The Mars500 crew passes the halfway point in their 105-day Mars mission simulation.
ESA MISSION UPDATE
14 July 2009
A crew of six today completed their simulated Mars mission after leaving a special isolation facility in Moscow, Russia, for the first time in 105 days. Their mission is part of the Mars500 programme that will help us to understand the psychological and medical aspects of long spaceflights.
Their simulated Mars mission ended at 12:00 CEST (14:00 local time) when the hatch was opened and the crew disembarked for the first time since 31 March. They had been inside the isolation facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) for a total of 105 days, living and working in close quarters.
NASA MISSION UPDATE
Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-127 mission has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 15 at 6:03 p.m. EDT.
Is Ares I dead? NASA is working on a redesign
Orlando Sentinel
Members of the Presidentially appointed panel reviewing the future of America’s manned-space plans have asked NASA to design a new way to send astronauts back to the moon.
Guy Laliberté gives a video update on his training for his space tourism visit to ISS.
Guy Laliberte’s $35 million space tourism joyride could save him $10 million in online gambling losses because he’s too busy training to lose money.
NSBRI PRESS RELEASE
From March 31 to July 14, a six-man international crew called an isolation chamber in Moscow their home. The crew, composed of four Russians and two Europeans, simulated a 105-day Mars mission full of experiments and realistic mission scenarios, including emergency situations and 20-minute communications delays.
U.S. participation in the mission consisted of three research teams with experiments evaluating solutions to conditions that impact work performance. The projects evaluated lighting interventions to counter sleep disruption due to shift work or long hours, tested two objective methods of measuring the impact of stress and fatigue on performance, and assessed interactions between crew members and mission control. The three projects were funded by the Houston-based National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).
SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket put Malaysia’s RazakSAT remote sensing satellite into orbit on Tuesday from a seaside launch pad in the Marshall Islands. The launch, which occurred at 3:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. PDT Monday), appeared to go flawlessly based on a live webcast. About a half hour after the rocket reached orbit, the second stage relighted and deployed the satellite into its correct orbit over the Equator. This […]
NASA scrubbed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Monday evening due to lightning storms in the launch area. Mission managers will be meeting shortly to decide when the reschedule the flight to the International Space Station.
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