Mars500 crewmembers Oliver Knickel and Oleg Artemyez collect expired air samples for one of the Mars500 study experiments. Credits: ESA
ESA MISSION UPDATE
30 June 2009
With just two weeks to go on their 105-day simulated Mars mission, the Mars500 crew now have access to the Mars landing module. ESA-selected crewmember Oliver Knickel reports back on the past week inside the isolation facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, Russia.
RSC-Energia Press Release
29 June 2009
The annual general stockholders meeting of S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Public Corporation (OAO) Energia was held last week.
Totally, 1463 stockholders took part in the meeting. They own 813293 shares, which constituted 72.37% of the total number of the joint stock company voting shares.
Brazil plans to build a dozen new launch pads at its Alcantara spaceport, Chinese media reports.
The first test of ‘autoland’ capability on Masten Space Systems’ XA-0.1B-750 vertical takeoff, vertical landing rocket vehicle.
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America …We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… […]
ROSKOSMOS PRESS OFFICE
Yesterday, on July 2, a ceremonial reception took place in the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Moscow.
Sergey Saveliev, Deputy Head of Roscosmos, attended the reception. On behalf of Roscosmos Administration, he handed over Roscosmos Administration Award “International Space Cooperation” to the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People`s Republic of China in the Russian Federation Mr. Lu Guchan.
Space Agency Launches RX-420 Rocket
AFP
The country’s space agency successfully launched an unmanned rocket on Thursday, one small step in a plan to get a satellite into orbit by 2014, one of its executives said.
Toto Marnanto Kadri, the head of the Aerospace Electronics Technology Center at the Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan), said the RX-420 rocket successfully blasted off into space on Thursday at around 8 a.m. from a launch pad in Pameungpeuk, several kilometers from the town of Garut, West Java.
PSI MISSION UPDATE
June 26, 2009
Robert C. Reedy, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, is mapping the moon’s surface elements using data gathered by an advanced gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) that rode aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft.
NASA MISSION UPDATE
Launch preparations are under way at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following Wednesday’s successful test fueling of space shuttle Endeavour’s external tank.
International Space Station
NASA MISSION UPDATE
As America celebrates its 233rd birthday this holiday weekend, there will be an extra light in the sky along with the fireworks. Across the country, Americans will be treated to spectacular views of the International Space Station as it orbits 220 miles above Earth.
NASA pitches cheaper moon plan
Associated Press
Officially, the space agency is still on track with a 4-year-old plan to spend $35 billion to build new rockets and return astronauts to the moon in several years. However, a top NASA manager is floating a cut-rate alternative that costs around $6.6 billion.