October 2013

Orbital Sciences’ Spacecraft Returns to Earth as Blazing Ball of Trash

October 23rd, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: , , , |

Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus spacecraft ends its mission today with a blazing reentry over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand, carrying more than a ton of trash from the International Space Station. Astronauts aboard the space station loaded the unmanned Cygnus with 2,850 pounds of refuse before using the station’s [...]

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NASA Shutdown Unleashes Beautiful Astronaut Photos on Twitter

October 16th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: , , , , , |

Despite the two-week old  government shutdown and NASA’s official online presence going completely dark, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have still been tweeting away and sharing some pretty spectacular snapshots. During the shutdown, NASA has kept Mission Control lights on at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, making [...]

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September 2013

WATCH: Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo ship docks with Space Station

September 30th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography, Video|Tags: , , , , , |

An unmanned cargo ship successfully berthed with the orbiting International Space Station on Sunday following a one-week delay due to a technical glitch, NASA said. ISS astronauts “successfully captured the Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo spacecraft with the station’s robotic arm” at 1100 GMT, NASA said. “Following its capture, the spacecraft [...]

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Giant Leaps for Space Firms Orbital, SpaceX

September 29th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: , , , , , , , |

A successful launch and a separate in-orbit rendezvous on Sunday, both funded largely with corporate dollars, are accelerating what amounts to the privatization of NASA's current human spaceflight efforts. Orbital Sciences Corp. became the second commercial entity to send a spacecraft to the international space station, with its Cygnus cargo [...]

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